The Las Vegas Strip cityscape is highlighted by its use of contemporary architecture, lights and wide variety of attractions, its hotels, casinos, restaurants, residential high-rises, entertainment offerings, and skyline have established the Las Vegas Strip as one of the most popular and iconic tourist destinations in the United States, and the world.[5]

In the strictest sense, "the Strip" refers only to the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that is roughly between Sahara Avenue and Russell Road, a distance of 4.2 miles (6.8 km).[7][8] However, the term is often used to refer not only to the road but also to the various casinos and resorts that line the road, and even to properties that are not on the road but in proximity. Phrases such as Strip Area, Resort Corridor or Resort District are sometimes used to indicate a larger geographical area, including properties 1 mile (1.6 km) or more away from Las Vegas Boulevard, such as the Hard Rock, Rio, Palms, and Hooters casinos.

The traditional definition considers the Strip's northern terminus as the SLS, though travel guides typically extend it to include the Stratosphere, 0.4 miles (0.64 km) to the north. Mandalay Bay, located just north of Russell Road, is the southernmost resort considered to be on the Strip (the Klondike was the southernmost until 2006, when it was closed, although it was not included in Las Vegas Strip on some definitions and travel guides).

Because of the number and size of the resorts, the Resort Corridor can be quite wide. Interstate 15 runs roughly parallel and 0.5 to 0.8 miles (0.80 to 1.29 km) to the west of Las Vegas Boulevard for the entire length of the Strip. Paradise Road runs to the east in a similar fashion, and ends at St. Louis Avenue, the eastern side of the Strip is bounded by McCarran International Airport south of Tropicana Avenue.

North of this point, the Resort Corridor can be considered to extend as far east as Paradise Road, although some consider Koval Lane as a less inclusive boundary. Interstate 15 is sometimes considered the western edge of the Resort Corridor from Interstate 215 to Spring Mountain Road. North of this point, Industrial Road serves as the western edge.

The famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign is located in the median just south of Russell Road, across from the now-demolished Klondike Hotel & Casino. Another similar (and newer) "Welcome to Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas" sign is in the median a mile north of the Strip at the intersection of Las Vegas Blvd and South 4th St. Newer resorts such as South Point and the M Resort are on Las Vegas Boulevard South as distant as 8 miles south of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign. Marketing for these casinos usually states that they are on southern Las Vegas Boulevard and not "Strip" properties.

Southern half of Las Vegas Strip at night with CityCenter construction on the bottom right, 2007

Caesars Palace was established in 1966. In 1968, Kirk Kerkorian purchased the Flamingo and hired Sahara Hotels Vice President Alex Shoofey as President. Alex Shoofey brought along 33 of Sahara's top executives, the Flamingo was used to train future employees of the International Hotel, which was under construction. Opening in 1969, the International Hotel, with 1,512 rooms, began the era of mega-resorts, the International is known as Westgate Las Vegas today. The first MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, also a Kerkorian property, opened in 1973 with 2,084 rooms, at the time, this was one of the largest hotels in the world by number of rooms. The Rossiya Hotel built in 1967 in Moscow, for instance, had 3,200 rooms; however, most of the rooms in the Rossiya Hotel were single rooms of 118 sq. ft (roughly 1/4 size of a standard room at the MGM Grand Resort). On November 21, 1980, the MGM Grand suffered the worst resort fire in the history of Las Vegas as a result of electrical problems, killing 87 people, it reopened eight months later. In 1986, Kerkorian sold the MGM Grand to Bally Manufacturing, and it was renamed Bally's.

The Wet 'n Wild water park opened in 1985 and was located on the south side of the Sahara hotel, the park closed at the end of the 2004 season and was later demolished. The opening of The Mirage in 1989 set a new level to the Las Vegas experience, as smaller hotels and casinos made way for the larger mega-resorts, the Rio and the Excalibur opened in 1990. These huge facilities offer entertainment and dining options, as well as gambling and lodging, this change affected the smaller, well-known and now historic hotels and casinos, like The Dunes, The Sands, the Stardust, and the Sahara.

In addition to the large hotels, casinos and resorts, the Strip is home to a few smaller casinos and other attractions, such as M&M World, Adventuredome and the Fashion Show Mall. Starting in the mid-1990s, the Strip became a popular New Year's Eve celebration destination.

Four-segment panorama of the Cosmopolitan, Bellagio, and Caesars Palace (left to right) from the Las Vegas Strip, across from the Bellagio fountains.

With the opening of Bellagio, Venetian, Palazzo, Wynn and Encore resorts, the strip trended towards the luxurious high end segment through most of the 2000s, while some older resorts added major expansions and renovations, including some de-theming of the earlier themed hotels. High end dining, specialty retail, spas and nightclubs increasingly became options for visitors in addition to gambling at most Strip resorts. There was also a trend towards expensive residential condo units on the strip.

In 2004, MGM Mirage announced plans for CityCenter, a 66-acre (27 ha), $7 billion multi-use project on the site of the Boardwalk hotel and adjoining land. It consists of hotel, casino, condo, retail, art, business and other uses on the site. City Center is currently the largest such complex in the world. Construction began in April 2006, with most elements of the project opened in late 2009. Also in 2006, the Las Vegas Strip lost its longtime status as the world's highest-grossing gambling center, falling to second place behind Macau.[16]

RTC Transit (previously Citizens Area Transit, or CAT) provides bus service on the Strip with double decker buses known as The Deuce. The Deuce runs between Mandalay Bay at the southern end of the Strip (and to the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign and South Strip Transfer Terminal after midnight) to the Bonneville Transit Center (BTC) and the Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas, with stops near every casino. RTC also operates an express bus called the Strip and Downtown Express (SDX), this route connects the Strip to the Las Vegas Convention Center and Downtown Las Vegas to the north, with stops at selected hotels and shopping attractions (Las Vegas Premium Outlets North & South).

While not on the Strip itself, the Las Vegas Monorail runs on the east side of the Strip corridor from Tropicana Avenue to Sahara Avenue.[27]

Prior to CAT bus service beginning operations in 1992, mass transit on the Strip was provided by a private transit company, Las Vegas Transit, the Strip route was their only profitable route and supported the whole bus system.[citation needed]

According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's annual Las Vegas Visitor Profile Study, only 36% of people said they walked around the Strip, a figure that is a drop from 2013 (52%). [29]

In 2000, Bali Hai Golf Club opened just south of Mandalay Bay and the Strip.[30]

In recent years, all golf courses on the Strip but the Desert Inn Golf Course have been removed to make way for building projects. Even though many golf courses along the Strip were being torn down, such as the Tropicana Country Club and the Dunes golf course, developer Steve Wynn, founder of previously owned Mirage Resorts, purchased the Desert Inn and golf course for his new company Wynn Resorts. The Wynn Golf Club is "...the only golf course attached to a resort on the Las Vegas Strip...".[31] In 2005, he opened Wynn Las Vegas, complete with remodeled golf course providing tee times to hotel guests only.

Aladdin Hotel & Casino: Opened in 1963 as the Tally Ho, became the King's Crown in 1965, the Aladdin in 1966, and was demolished in 1998, and reopened in 2000. In 2007, the Aladdin was renamed Planet Hollywood.

Big Red's Casino: Opened in 1981 and closed in 1982. Property developed for CBS Sports World Casino in 1997. Changed name to Sports World Casino after CBS threatened to sue.[38] Closed in 2001, now a shopping center.

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Wikivoyage
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Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors. It is a project of Wikipedia and supported and hosted by the same non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikivoyage has been called the Wikipedia of travel guides, the resulting site went live as Wikivoyage on December 10,2006 and was owned and operated by a German association set up for that purpose, Wikivoyage e. V. Content was published under the copyleft license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, in 2012, following a lengthy history of dissatisfaction with their existing host, the English-language version community of Wikitravel also decided as a community to fork their project. Using a wiki model, Wikivoyage is built through collaboration of Wikivoyagers from around the globe, articles can cover different levels of geographic specificity, from continents to districts of a city. These are logically connected in a hierarchy, by specifying that the location covered in one article is within the location described by another. The project also includes articles on travel-related topics, phrasebooks for travelers, Wikivoyage is a multilingual project available in nine languages, with each language-specific project developed independently. While now a Wikimedia project, it was begun independently, Wikivoyage content is broadly categorized as, destinations, itineraries, phrasebooks, and travel topics. Geographical units within the hierarchy may be described in articles, based on the criterion. Itineraries may cross geographical regions, but usually have a well-defined path, a phrasebook includes, An overview of the language, giving a brief history, scope, alphabet or symbol set, and any other general info on the language. A pronunciation guide, with a description of each symbol in the language. Each entry in the phrase list includes the word or phrase being translated, the spelling in the local language symbol set as it would be written down. Wikivoyage uses the free MediaWiki software to allow internet-based editing without requiring registration, quality assurance occurs in the same way as on Wikipedia, through reciprocal control by editors. The use of the software is intended to facilitate familiarization with Wikivoyage. Wikivoyage uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, but not the GNU free documentation license and this is intended to facilitate the production of printed guides from a legal point of view. Media files are intended to be published either in the domain or under multiple licenses. The information is built up in a structured way than usual for encyclopaedias. In the German-language version, different name spaces are used to different topics

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New York-New York
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New York-New York Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip at 3790 Las Vegas Boulevard South, in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, New York-New York uses the New York City influence of its name in several ways. Within the resort, particular gambling areas, lounges, restaurants, the main casino area, for example, is named after Central Park, while the shops are modeled after Greenwich Village. At the casino, special decks of playing cards are used where the suit is replaced by apples. The resort is located on the northwest corner of the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, at street level, pedestrians are blocked from crossing by concrete barriers. Instead, it is linked by pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos to the south. Japanese firm Universal Distributing owned the property, and had discussed a joint venture with the Promus Companies to build a hotel-casino, but could not reach an agreement. In 1992, Kirk Kerkorians Tracinda Corporation bought the site for $31.5 million and offered MGM Grand Inc. of which Kerkorian owned 76%, the idea of a casino modeled after the New York skyline was conceived by Sig Rogich and Mark Advent. Rogich brought the idea to his friend, Gary Primm, head of Primadonna Resorts, Primm approached MGM president Bob Maxey in 1994 with the idea for MGMs prime Strip location, and a joint venture was formed between the two companies. Completed at a cost of million, New York-New York opened on January 3,1997. Since the initiation of New York-New York, analysts had speculated that MGM Grand or Primadonna would buy out the others interest in the project. Instead of making such a purchase, however, MGM agreed to buy Primadonna outright for $276 million in stock plus $336 million in assumed debt. The merger closed in March 1999, giving MGM full control of New York-New York, after the September 11,2001 attacks, people spontaneously sent various tributes to New York-New York, especially T-shirts from police, fire and rescue departments around the country. These were displayed along the fence in front of the Lady Liberty replica, eventually, they added a memorial from 2003 to 2013. The 9/11 Memorial was removed in 2013 for a casino expansion, the US Post Office Forever Statue of Liberty Stamp, which was intended to show the actual Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, actually shows the replica at New York-New York. This is due to an error by the designers, who incorrectly chose a stock photo of the replica instead of the original. Even after the error was recognized the Postal Service continued producing the stamp, in 2013 the sculptor of the statue in Las Vegas sued the Postal Service for copyright infringement. His lawyers pointed out that the replica is a piece of art

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A special deck of cards used at the casino in which Apples replace Hearts. Note the generic Ace of Spades

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MGM Grand Las Vegas
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The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The MGM Grand is the largest single hotel in the United States with 5,124 rooms and it is also the third-largest hotel complex in the world by number of rooms and second-largest hotel resort complex in the United States behind the combined The Venetian and The Palazzo. When it opened in 1993, the MGM Grand was the largest hotel complex in the world, owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, the 30-floor main building is 293 ft high. The property includes five outdoor pools, rivers, and waterfalls that cover 6.6 acres, a 380,000 sq ft convention center, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and the Grand Spa. Instead, the MGM Grand is linked by pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos, to the south across Tropicana Avenue, the Tropicana. The property was originally the site of the Golf Club Motel during the 1960s, in 1972, Tom Wiesner co-founded Southwest Securities Development Company, and later founded Wiesner Investment Company. Southwest planned to renovate the structure and add a 14-story addition with 518 rooms. Fred Harvey Company would serve as the operator of the hotel, its restaurants, Fred Harvey had previously opened hotels in other parts of the United States under the Airport Marina name. Southwest also planned to construct a 28,400 sq ft casino that would operate separately from Fred Harvey, the 700-room Marina, located at 3805 South Las Vegas Boulevard, was built by Wiesner Investment Company and was opened in 1975. Kerkorian saw the Marina as a stable and solidly built resort, and decided not to destroy the hotel, during that time, the Marina was known as the MGM-Marina Hotel. The Marina closed on November 30,1990, and ground was broken for the new hotel complex on October 7,1991. The Marina hotel building still exists as the west wing of the hotel building. When the latest MGM Grand opened on December 18,1993, at that time it had an extensive Wizard of Oz theme, including the green Emerald City color of the building and the decorative use of Wizard of Oz memorabilia. After entering the main entrance, one would find themselves in the Oz Casino facing Emerald City. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion were seen in front of the city and it would end at the door of the city, leading inside for a performance of The Wizards Secrets. When MGM Grand began its refurbishment in 1996, the Oz Casino was the first to go. The Emerald City was completely demolished, and the Emerald City Gift Shop was moved to a new shopping section of the casino, the store remained open until early 2003. Originally, the entrance on the Strip was inside the mouth of a giant cartoon-like version of MGMs logo, Leo the Lion

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Paris Las Vegas
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Paris Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation, the front of the hotel suggests the Paris Opera House and the Louvre. The Paris is linked via a promenade to its property, Ballys Las Vegas. In May 1995, Bally Entertainment, owner of the adjacent Ballys Las Vegas, Paris was designed by architectural companies Leidenfrost/Horowitz & Assoc. Bergman, Walls & Assoc. and MBH Architects, the design architect of the project was Bergman Walls Associates. Herbert Horowitz, Partner of Leidenfrost/Horowitz & Assoc. was executive architect, Bally broke ground for the Paris Las Vegas on April 18,1997, and construction began in May on the 24 acres parcel. It completed in May 1997 at an estimated cost of $760 million, original plans for the Eiffel Tower called for a full-scale replica, however that would have interfered with the nearby McCarran Airport and designers therefore reduced it to approximately 1,2 scale. The hotel is 33 stories tall, a unique architectural aspect of the Paris is that the back legs of its Eiffel Tower actually come down through the ceiling into the casino floor. Paris Las Vegas opened on September 1,1999, with fireworks being shot from the Eiffel Tower, French actress Catherine Deneuve flipped a switch, turning on all of Paris lights, including the various crystal chandeliers in the main lobby. On January 31,2007, Paris Las Vegas premiered its new show The Producers, there were reports of friction between the shows producers and Hasselhoff and he announced he would leave May 6 due to other commitments. The Producers refocused on Max, played by Tony Danza, Danza came on as the celebrity actor for the show until The Producers closed on February 9,2008. Barry Manilow has headlined at the Paris since March 6,2010, beginning in 2010, Caesars Entertainment Corporation has begun a series of improvement projects that will see some removal of the Parisian theme. Caesars is beginning to phase out the French greeters around the property, the project debuted in Spring 2011 and includes a new nightclub dubbed Chateau and the largest Sugar Factory store on the Strip. It was announced in early December 2010 that the hotels famous steakhouse Les Artisies would close at the end of January 2011 to make way for Gordon Ramsay Steak, the controversial icons restaurant opened in June 2011. It is expected that as of March 5,2011, a new nightclub called Chateau is to be opened in the Paris Hotel, the new nightclub overlooking the Strip will span more than 45,000 square feet in a two-story, outdoor setting. Outside, guests will find a 10, 000-square-foot terrace overlooking the Strip with VIP cabanas, during the day, the terrace will serve as a beer garden and restaurant, opening at 10 a. m. In 2015, Hexx Kitchen & Bar and Hexx Chocolate & Confexxions was opened in the formerly occupied by the Sugar Factory. Hexx is the first bean-to-bar chocolate maker in Nevada, in 2016, Beer Park by Budweiser opened on a 10, 000-square-foot deck overlooking the Las Vegas Strip

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Nevada
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Nevada is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, nearly three-quarters of Nevadas people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area where three of the states four largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada is officially known as the Silver State because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the Battle Born State, because it achieved statehood during the Civil War, as the Sage-brush State, for the plant of the same name. Nevada borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, Nevada is largely desert and semi-arid, much of it located within the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe, about 86% of the states land is managed by various jurisdictions of the U. S. federal government, both civilian and military. Before European contact, Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, the first Europeans to explore the region were Spanish. They called the region Nevada because of the snow covered the mountains in winter. The area formed part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the United States annexed the area in 1848 after its victory in the Mexican–American War, and it was incorporated as part of Utah Territory in 1850. The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a boom that became an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31,1864, as the second of two added to the Union during the Civil War. Nevada has a reputation for its libertarian laws, in 1940, with a population of just over 110,000 people, Nevada was by far the least-populated state, with less than half the population of the next least-populated state. However, legalized gambling and lenient marriage and divorce laws transformed Nevada into a major tourist destination in the 20th century, Nevada is the only U. S. state where prostitution is legal, though it is illegal in Clark County, Washoe County and Carson City. The tourism industry remains Nevadas largest employer, with mining continuing as a sector of the economy. The name Nevada comes from the Spanish nevada, meaning snow-covered, most Nevadans pronounce the second syllable of their state name using the vowel of trap. Many from outside the Western United States pronounce it with the vowel of father, although the latter pronunciation is closer to the Spanish pronunciation, it is not the pronunciation preferred by most Nevadans. State Assemblyman Harry Mortenson proposed a bill to recognize the alternate pronunciation of Nevada, though the bill was not supported by most legislators, the Nevadan pronunciation is the de facto official one, since it is the one used by the state legislature. Nevada is almost entirely within the Basin and Range Province, and is broken up by many mountain ranges

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Paradise, Nevada
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Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the city of Las Vegas. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census, making it the most populous unincorporated community in Nevada, as an unincorporated town, it is governed by the Clark County Commission with input from the Paradise Town Advisory Board. Paradise was formed on December 8,1950, Paradise contains McCarran International Airport, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and most of the Las Vegas Strip. Paradise contains most tourist attractions in the Las Vegas area, excluding downtown, despite this, the name Paradise remains relatively unknown. All Paradise ZIP codes have Las Vegas mailing addresses, the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley was referred to as Paradise Valley as early as 1910, owing to a high water table that made the land particularly fertile for farming. County commissioners established a Paradise school district in 1914, the commission voted to create the unincorporated township of Paradise on December 8,1950. In 1975, Nevada enacted a law that would have incorporated Paradise into the City of Las Vegas, before it could take effect, however, the bill was struck down as unconstitutional by the Nevada Supreme Court. According to the United States Census Bureau, the place of Paradise has a total area of 46.7 square miles. At the census of 2010, there were 223,167 people residing in Paradise. The racial makeup was 59. 8% White,8. 9% African American,0. 8% Native American,9. 5% Asian,1. 0% Pacific Islander, and 5. 5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 31. 2% of the population and 46. 3% of the population was non-Hispanic White. As of the census of 2000, there were 186,070 people,77,209 households, the population density was 3,947.3 people per square mile. There were 85,398 housing units at a density of 1,811.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 72. 51% White,6. 59% African American,0. 77% Native American,6. 52% Asian,0. 59% Pacific Islander,8. 37% from other races, and 4. 65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23. 47% of the population,31. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the family size was 3.04. In the CDP, the population was out with 21. 2% under the age of 18,10. 8% from 18 to 24,33. 3% from 25 to 44,23. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 109.1 males

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Winchester, Nevada
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Winchester is an unincorporated town and census-designated place and part of Las Vegas Township in Clark County, Nevada, United States that contains part of the Las Vegas Strip. It is one of a number of CDPs in the urbanized area directly south of Las Vegas. The population was 27,978 at the 2010 census and it is governed by the Clark County Commission with advice from the Winchester Town Advisory Board. Winchester, NV does not appear in postal addresses, the United States Postal Service has assigned Las Vegas, founded as Paradise A in April 1951, the town was renamed Winchester in 1953. Winchester sits in the part of the Las Vegas Valley. To the north it borders Las Vegas, to the west and south is the CDP of Paradise, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.3 square miles, all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 26,958 people,11,986 households, the population density was 6,253.2 inhabitants per square mile. There were 13,535 housing units at a density of 3,139.6 inhabitants per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 71. 83% White,7. 03% African American,0. 87% Native American,5. 36% Asian,0. 44% Pacific Islander,9. 66% from other races, and 4. 81% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 29. 01% of the population,38. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the family size was 3.01. In the CDP, the population was out with 19. 8% under the age of 18,9. 0% from 18 to 24,29. 2% from 25 to 44,24. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 40 years, for every 100 females there were 106.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.7 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $32,251, and the median income for a family was $39,451. Males had an income of $27,886 versus $22,453 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $20,615, about 11. 4% of families and 14. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19. 2% of those under age 18 and 8. 5% of those age 65 or over

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Scenic route
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The designation is usually determined by a governmental body, such as a Department of Transportation or a Ministry of Transport. A tourist highway or holiday route is a road which is marketed as particularly suited for tourists, tourist highways may be formed when existing roads are promoted with traffic signs and advertising material. Some tourist highways such as the Blue Ridge Parkway are built especially for tourism purposes, others may be roadways enjoyed by local citizens in areas of unique or exceptional natural beauty. Still others, such as the Lincoln Highway in Illinois are former main roads, in the United States this type of roadway is commonly termed a scenic highway. In Europe and other countries around the world they are marked with brown tourist signs with the individual route symbol or name. In the United States, a route may also not refer to a type of special route of the U. S. highway system that travels through a particularly beautiful area. These special routes, which boast Scenic banners are typically longer than the parent route, there are only two routes in the country that remain with the official scenic designation, U. S. Route 40 Scenic and U. S. Route 412 Scenic. National Parkways are scenic roads in the National Park System built for driving through scenic or historic areas. Unlike most scenic routes, National Parkways are built with a buffer of park land along both sides of the roadway and they also may have large satellite parks or recreation areas built periodically along their length. Most National Historic Trails are commemorative motor routes which follow historic pathways, theme Routes are special theme-based tours, aimed at providing a visitor or tourist with a better insight on that theme. Being popular in Europe, they can cover anything from an individual city, subjects can be architectural, historical, or cultural

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Resort
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A resort is a self-contained commercial establishment that endeavors to provide most of a vacationers wants, such as food, drink, lodging, sports, entertainment, and shopping, on the premises. The term resort may be used for a property that provides an array of amenities, typically including entertainment. A hotel is frequently a central feature of a resort, such as the Grand Hotel at Mackinac Island, some resorts are also timeshare or fractionally owned, or wholly owned condominium complexes. A resort is not always a commercial establishment operated by a single company, commonly these facilities are of higher quality than would be expected if one were to stay at a hotel or eat in a towns restaurants. Closely related to these resorts are convention and large meeting sites, generally these occur in cities where special meeting halls, together with ample accommodations as well as varied dining and entertainment, are provided. An all-inclusive resort charges a price that includes most or all items. At a minimum, most inclusive resorts include lodging, unlimited food, drink, sports activities, all-inclusive resorts are found in the Caribbean, particularly in Dominican Republic, Egypt, and elsewhere. Many also offer sports and other included in the price as well. They are often located in warmer regions, the all-inclusive model originated in the Club Med resorts, which were founded by the Belgian Gérard Blitz. Some all-inclusive resorts are designed for specific vacation interests, for example, certain resorts cater to adults, while even more specialized properties accept couples only. Other all-inclusive resorts are geared toward families, with facilities like craft centers, game rooms, all-inclusive resorts are also very popular locations for destination weddings. A spa resort is a short term residential/lodging facility with the purpose of providing individual services for spa-goers to develop healthy habits. Historically many such spas were developed at the location of natural hot springs or sources of mineral waters, golf resorts are resorts that cater specifically to the sport of golf, and include access to one or more golf course and or clubhouse. Golf resorts typically provide golf packages that provide visitors with all greens and cart fees, range balls, accommodations, in North America a ski resort is generally a destination resort in a ski area. Ski resort is less likely to refer to a town or village, a megaresort is a type of destination resort which is of an exceptionally large size, such as those along the Las Vegas Strip. In Singapore integrated resort is a euphemism for a destination resort. A holiday village is a type of self-contained resort in Europe, a holiday camp in the United Kingdom refers to a resort where the accommodation is in chalets. The term holiday park is used for a resort where the accommodation includes static caravans, there are 1500+ timeshare resorts in the U. S. that are operated by major hospitality, timeshare-specific, or independent companies

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Mandalay Bay
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Mandalay Bay is a 43-story luxury resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, One of the propertys towers operates as the Delano, also the Four Seasons Hotel is independently operated within the Mandalay Bay tower, occupying 5 floors. Mandalay Bay has 3,309 hotel rooms,24 elevators, adjacent to the hotel are the 2,000,000 square feet Mandalay Bay Convention Center and the 12, 000-seat Mandalay Bay Events Center. The Mandalay Bay Tram connects the resort to its properties, Excalibur and Luxor. Circus Circus Enterprises bought the Hacienda for $80 million in 1995 and they closed it on December 1,1996, and imploded it on New Years Eve,1996. The Mandalay Bay project was introduced on December 31,1996, as Hawaiian-themed, in February 1998, the project was renamed Mandalay Bay, despite the fact there is no actual bay in the inland city of Mandalay in Myanmar. During construction engineers discovered vertical movements and particularly differential movements between the core and the wings. The tower core was sinking at a rate of 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 inch per week, if these movements were not stopped, severe structural damage would occur and the building would have been at risk of eventual collapse. Construction was halted while a solution was developed and implemented, since then, there have not been any reports of this problem recurring. In June 1999, Circus Circus changed its name to Mandalay Resort Group, the convention center was added in January 2003. When it opened, it was ranked as the fifth largest in the United States and it also offered the largest unobstructed ballroom in the country, at 100,000 square feet. On May 23,2002, the Mandalay Resort Group announced a second 1, 122-room hotel tower, construction began on the tower in September 2002. The name of the tower, THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, was chosen in September 2003, the tower opened on December 17,2003. In February 2005, Mandalay Resort Group was sold to MGM Mirage, the acquisition was finalized on April 25,2005. The gold coloring of the hotel is a result of gold used on the windows. The top 3 floors are penthouses, with a lounge on level 62 for guests staying in the penthouses. The resorts second tower, with 45 stories and 1,117 suites, previously operated as THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, each suite is at least 750 square feet. Five floors of the hotel building are occupied by the five-star

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Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas)
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The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, is an entertainment resort owned and operated by Brookfield Asset Management and Warner Gaming, LLC. The property is located on 16.7 acres on the corner of Harmon and Paradise Road, Hard Rock earns only about 30% of its revenue from gaming. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino was built in 1995 by Peter Morton and it was expanded in 1999, and began another expansion in 2007. In June 2002 influential rock bassist John Entwistle of The Who died in one of the hotels rooms, the hotel management originally refused to release the room number out of respect, but later reports indicate that Entwistle died in Room 658. Many fans still pay tribute to Entwistle, by visiting the hotel, on May 11,2006, the Morgans Hotel Group signed definitive agreements with its partners to purchase the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Morgans operated the property and had a 12. 8% equity partner in the venture along with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners until February 2011, at that time, ownership of the hotel was turned over to Brookfield Asset Management, and operations were turned over to Warner Gaming. On October 25,2008, professional wrestling show TNA iMPACT, broadcast their first HD show from the building. The Joint is a rock club, the original Joint closed its doors in February 2009. The new Joint opened on April 17,2009, with The Killers performing the inaugural concert, the opening weekend also included shows by Avenged Sevenfold on April 18 and Paul McCartney on April 19. The new venue is nearly twice the size of the original, holding up to 4,000 attendees, Vanity is the nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. It is part of the property expansion and occupies new space, designed by Mr. Important, the 14, 000-square-foot venue has two bars and 60 VIP booths. The signature feature of the club is the chandelier which sprawls over the dance floor. The chandelier has over 20,000 crystals, each lit with individually controlled full-color LED lights and it is open Friday through Sunday, with Thursday Sunday nights as SIN Sundays. The other nights are open format, resident DJs Pauly D, Shift, the venue is co-owned by the hotel and Jason Giambi. The venue opened on December 31,2009, and its opening weekend featured performances by DJ Vice and Bob Sinclar. The former nightclub was Body English, designed by Kelly Wearstler, the space featured two self-contained bars on different levels, a large dance floor,48 VIP booths, and a vintage $250,000 Baccarat chandelier. Body English was the home of Sunday Pervert School and Indulge Fridays, mainstays of Las Vegas nightlife, the Godskitchen party was also held at Body English every Wednesday, bringing headline dance music and talent to the venue. Body English was notably the first Las Vegas residency for the late DJ AM, prior to Body English, the same space housed the nightclub Babys

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Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino
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The Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino is located near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation, the Rio was the first all suite resort in the Las Vegas area. It was named after the city of Rio de Janeiro, and is influenced by Brazilian culture, the Rio is the host casino for the World Series of Poker. The hotel towers are covered in blue and red glass, the Rio hotels 2,522 suites range in size from 600 to 13,000 sq ft and have floor to ceiling windows. There are several private villas on the property for high-rollers, the complex includes a wine cellar that has more than 50,000 bottles. The Rio Pavilion convention center has a total of 160,000 sq ft of space, a Race and Sports Book is also available. The Rio opened on January 15,1990 as a locals casino, the opening acts were the Brazilian Group Sérgio Mendes 99 and Henrietta Alves of New Orleans, bringing the first two-piano act to Las Vegas, with various co-performers. A 20-story expansion tower was added to the current Ipanema Tower in 1993, Masquerade Village, a hotel tower and casino expansion including the Masquerade Show in the Sky, opened in 1997, at a cost of over $200 million. The Rio was purchased by Harrahs Entertainment in 1999 for $888 million, after the purchase, the Culinary Workers Union organized the Rio employees through card check recognition by enforcing the neutrality clause of the existing Harrahs contract on the new acquisition. Danny Gans, after moving from the Stratosphere Las Vegas, opened as the headliner in 1998 and he later moved to The Mirage in 2000. Penn & Teller have been the resident headline entertainers since 2001, the hotel hosted the World Series of Poker in 2005, the first time this event was not held at Binions. Binions was used for the three tables and the last two days of the competition as part of the celebration of Las Vegas centennial. Since 2005, the Rio has been the home for the tournament, on May 30,2008, the Rio opened the Sapphire Pool in conjunction with a local club. The daylight-hour, adults-only club surrounded one of the outdoor pools. It opened with an admission price. The request was a part of the effort to show good faith to the Gaming Control Board. The July 25 visit resulted in eleven arrests, upon finding out the results of the investigation, the Rio immediately shut down the pool. The DEF CON hacker convention took place at the Rio All Suite Hotel, the Computer Measurement Group annual conference took place at the Rio by December 2012

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Rio with an advertisement for Penn & Teller
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Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas

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Stratosphere Las Vegas
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Stratosphere Las Vegas is a hotel, casino, and tower located on Las Vegas Boulevard just north of the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is the tallest tower west of the Mississippi River and also the tallest structure in Las Vegas, the hotel is a separate building with 24 stories,2,427 rooms and an 80,000 sq ft casino. The Stratosphere is owned and operated by American Casino & Entertainment Properties, while the traditional definition of the Strip excludes the Stratosphere, it is often included in travel guides as a Strip attraction. Using this alternate definition, the Stratosphere is the northernmost of the major Strip resorts, the casino burned down two months later, and Stupak subsequently opened his Vegas World hotel and casino on the same property in 1979. The concept for the Stratosphere began as a plan by Stupak to construct a 1, in early October 1989, Stupak submitted plans to the city for the approval of the neon sign tower, which would stand four times taller than the hotel. Later in the week, Stupak withdrew his plans to time for a revised version of the tower that would include an elevator leading up to an observation deck. Stupak contacted a firm in Texas whose expertise was in designing radio transmission towers. They produced a series of configurations based on computer stretch-outs of their standard skeletal tower designs. When Stupak showed these to CEO Lou Papais of Ad Art, stockton, CA, he and his Executive Art Director, Chuck Barnard, agreed the designs were unsatisfactory and Barnard produced the concept for the 1149 ft. tower. Ad Art design associate, Jack Dubois, then created a giant color rendering of the tower which Stupak used to secure backing for construction. Architect Ned Baldwin, creator of the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, was brought in and assembled a team of engineers and architects to flesh out the design. In February 1990, Stupak unveiled his plans for a $50 million,1, 012-foot observation tower with a top floor that would include a revolving restaurant. The tower was also to include a park of African lions. In April 1990, the Las Vegas City Council approved Stupaks tower, despite objections from the Federal Aviation Administration, construction of the $32 million tower began in February 1992, on property adjacent to Vegas World. On August 29,1993, around midnight, hundreds of customers at Vegas World were evacuated when the tower caught on fire. The Stratosphere had been planned to open in August 1994, although the fire was expected to delay construction by eight weeks, Stupak said that the towers first phase would still be ready in time with an accelerated construction schedule. A large crane located atop the tower, used for construction, was damaged in the fire. The following month, high winds prevented the scheduled dismantling of the crane, at that time, the cause of the fire remained unknown

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Looking up from the base of The Stratosphere, with the X-scream ride hanging over the edge.
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View from the top
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View looking upwards at The Stratosphere

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Interstate 15 (Nevada)
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Interstate 15 is an Interstate Highway in the U. S. state of Nevada that begins in Primm, continues through Las Vegas and it crosses the border with Arizona in Mesquite. The freeway runs entirely in Clark County, many motorists use I-15 to visit Las Vegas, as it is the only primary Interstate Highway in the city. The highway was built along the corridor of the older U. S. Route 91 and Arrowhead Trail, motorists in California leave the mountainous Mojave Desert and begin a long descent through Ivanpah Valley and Ivanpah Dry Lake. I-15 crosses the Nevada state line at the first exit, Primm, once I-15 leaves Primm, the route travels north through the desert with few services. The highway then enters the Las Vegas urban area upon passing the State Route 146 interchange, quickly thereafter, the Interstate meets I-215 at the Southern Beltway Interchange, which provides access to Henderson and McCarran International Airport. Originally, this interchange was termed Son of Spaghetti Bowl by the Las Vegas Review-Journal when the interchange was built, I-15 travels along the west side of the Las Vegas Strip corridor and just west of downtown Las Vegas just before its junction with I-515 and US95. Once I-15 leaves North Las Vegas, the freeway travels northeast and crosses the Muddy River at Glendale, at Mesquite, the freeway then crosses the Arizona state line and cuts through the extreme northwestern corner of Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge before entering Utah. The general location of the I-15 corridor through Nevada can be traced as far back as the early 1900s, regular automobile travel through southern Nevada was established by 1914 along the Arrowhead Trail, a road connecting Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Two years later, the route was revised to pass through Las Vegas, US91 was later proposed as part of the original 1925 U. S. Highway System plan. As originally proposed, US91 would have followed SR6 southwest from Mesquite to downtown Las Vegas, the revised 1926 plan had proposed US91 follow SR6 through Las Vegas and Jean to the California state line. Nevadas 1927 official highway map reflects the routing of the final 1926 plan, however, US 91/SR6 began at Primm and followed the Los Angeles Highway towards Las Vegas. Within the city limits, it ran along Fifth Street through downtown and into North Las Vegas, exiting the Las Vegas area to the northeast, US91 became the Salt Lake Highway and then headed towards Apex and Glendale. The highway then curved east-northeast before following present-day SR170 through Riverside, US91 was routed through that city on Mesquite Boulevard, Sandhill Boulevard and Fairview Avenue before crossing the Arizona state line. By 1929, the alignment of US 91/SR6 was graded throughout much of the state, the route eventually gained two other highway overlaps. US466 was christened in 1934, and was routed concurrently along US91 from California to downtown Las Vegas before heading southeast to Hoover Dam. Also, in 1936, US93 was extended from its 1932 southern terminus at Glendale, a new alignment of US91 was completed in 1955. This bypassed both Bunkerville and Mesquite to the northwest, along what would become the path of I-15. The original alignment through Bunkerville is now SR170, the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 quickly brought upgrades to the US91 corridor

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McCarran International Airport
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McCarran International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Las Vegas Valley, a major metropolitan area in the U. S. state of Nevada. It is located in Paradise, about 5 miles south of downtown Las Vegas, the airport is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. It is named after Pat McCarran, a former Nevada senator who contributed to the development of both in Las Vegas and on a national scale. The airport was built in 1942 and opened to flights in 1948. It has undergone significant expansion since then and has employed various innovative technologies, the airport consists of four runways and two passenger terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 3. Terminal 1 is composed of four concourses, namely the A, B, C, a people mover system is in place between the pre-security area of Terminal 1 and the C and D Gates, as well as between the D Gates and Terminal 3. East of the terminals is the Marnell Air Cargo Center. McCarran received over 45,300,000 passengers in 2015 and it is the 26th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic and the 8th busiest by aircraft movements. The airport has air service to destinations in North America, Europe. It is a base for Allegiant Air, as well as a crew and maintenance base for Southwest Airlines. Anderson Field was the first airport to serve Las Vegas, opening in November 1920, purchased by the Rockwell brothers in 1925, the airfield was renamed Rockwell Field, and Western Air Express introduced commercial air service in April 1926. When the brothers sold Rockwell Field and the new owner canceled WAEs lease, local businessman P. A. Simon had built an airfield northeast of the city, to which WAE relocated in November 1929. Despite rising traffic to Las Vegas, WAE reduced service to the city amid the Great Depression, once its financial situation improved, the airline bought the airfield and established a monopoly on flights to it. When the city attempted to purchase the field and build a modern terminal. With the advent of World War II, however, WAE was pressured to sell the airfield, nevadan Senator Pat McCarran helped obtain federal funding for the city to buy the field and construct a new terminal. He also helped establish a school by the United States Army Air Corps at the field. For the senators contributions, the airport was named McCarran Field in 1941, the gunnery school was closed in 1945 after the end of World War II. However, the Army later wanted to reopen its base, provided air traffic was moved to another airport

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Senator Pat McCarran handing mail bag to Pony Express rider at dedication ceremony
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In June 2000 Virgin Atlantic began the first nonstop flights from Las Vegas to the United Kingdom.
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The finished Concourse D in 2009, with Terminal 3 under construction in the background.

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Pair-O-Dice
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The New Frontier was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, US. It was the resort that opened on the Las Vegas Strip. The building was demolished on November 13,2007, the land is now owned by Crown Resorts, which began construction on Alon Las Vegas in 2015 and plans to open in 2018. The property started as a nightclub called Pair-O-Dice that opened in 1930 and it was subsequently rebuilt and renamed the Hotel Last Frontier in 1942. On April 4,1955, it was renamed the New Frontier, the resort had the distinction of hosting Elvis Presleys first Vegas appearance in 1956, and the final performance of Diana Ross and The Supremes on January 14,1970. In the 1950s and the early 1960s, the New Frontier went through a succession of owners and operators. Hughes purchased the resort from the owners, which had also included Steve Wynn, with a 5% interest. (Wynn indicated that he did not know that the owners had mob connections. In 1988, Margaret Elardi bought The Frontier from the late Howard Hughes company, Elardi had previously been the part-owner of the Pioneer Club Las Vegas and the Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall in Laughlin. She closed the showroom, which had featured Siegfried and Roy, in September 1991, union workers began a strike at the hotel, which lasted for years. From September 21,1991 until February 1,1998 members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas staged a strike against the New Frontier and the Elardis. A settlement was reached on October 28,1997 when Ruffin announced he would purchase the New Frontier from the Elardis for $165 million, the strike ended when Ruffin officially took possession. According to an article in the Las Vegas Sun, the events occurred during the strike,17 CWU Local 226 strikers died. 106 babies were born to CWU member mothers who have walked the picket, the Dunes, Landmark, Sands and Hacienda were all closed and imploded. More than 21,340 hotel rooms were constructed in the Las Vegas Strip, construction on an additional 19,000 rooms and suites was started. 235 of the original 550 strikers had walked the line in shifts manned 24 hours a day, developer Phil Ruffin bought the resort in 1998 from embattled owner Margaret Elardi and her two sons. In 1999, the name was changed back to The New Frontier, donald Trump, in partnership with Ruffin, built a high-rise luxury hotel-condominium on some of its property, named the Trump Hotel Las Vegas. The project was announced in 2004, and opened in 2008, in March 2005, with Las Vegass fortunes on the rise, Ruffin announced new plans to demolish the current facility and replace it with a new resort with 3,000 rooms

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El Rancho Vegas
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El Rancho Vegas was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It was located at 2500 Las Vegas Boulevard, at the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, until 1942, it was the largest hotel in Las Vegas with 110 rooms. On June 17,1960, the hotel was destroyed by fire, in 1940, James Cashman, a businessman, asked Thomas Hull, the owner of the El Rancho hotels, to build a chain in Las Vegas. Hull saw the potential of the resort, as he saw all the license plates during a visit to the resorts potential site. Construction of the El Rancho Vegas began in 1940, and the resort opened on April 3,1941, El Rancho Vegas was the first resort on the Las Vegas Strip. It was designed by architect Wayne McAllister, who constructed the resort with a Spanish-style exterior with a cowboy, El Rancho Vegas offered horseback riding, a large swimming pool, and top shows in its theater called the Opera House. When it opened, El Rancho Vegass dining room was the largest in Las Vegas, the casino consisted of four table games—two blackjack tables, one roulette table, and one craps table—and seventy slot machines. In December 1944, William Wilkerson leased the El Rancho Vegas from then owner Joe Drown for six months, Wilkerson paid Drown $50,000 for the six-month lease. Wilkerson would later go on to build The Flamingo Hotel, in September 1945, El Rancho Vegas was sold for $1.5 million to Los Angeles businessman Walter Guzzardi. Katleman used $750,000 to improve the resort, and El Rancho Vegas became the largest casino in Nevada, shirley Bassey made her American stage debut here in 1957. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married at the El Rancho Vegas in 1958, the wedding was held in the suite of the casinos owner at the time, Beldon Katleman. Stripper Candy Barr was headlining at El Rancho Vegas in 1959 when she was arrested by the FBI after her appeal on a marijuana conviction originating in Texas was rejected by the US Supreme Court. On June 17,1960, while Harry James and Betty Grable were performing a show on stage. There were no deaths or injuries, despite vows to rebuild the El Rancho Vegas after the fire, the plans never materialized. In 1970, billionaire Howard Hughes purchased 60 acres of the land, in 1978, the remnants of the old resort were demolished. The Hilton Grand Vacations Club timeshare opened on a portion of the land in 2004, the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, opened in 2015, takes up a majority of the land. Media at the UNLV digital library

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Organized crime
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Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups, are politically motivated. Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, such as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for so-called protection, gangs may become disciplined enough to be considered organized. A criminal organization or gang can also be referred to as a mafia, mob, or crime syndicate, European sociologists define the mafia as a type of organized crime group that specializes in the supply of extra-legal protection and quasi law enforcement. There is a tendency to distinguish organized crime from other forms of crime, such as crime, financial crimes, political crimes, war crime, state crimes. This distinction is not always apparent and academics continue to debate the matter, for example, in failed states that can no longer perform basic functions such as education, security, or governance, organised crime, governance and war sometimes complement each other. The term Oligarchy has been used to describe democratic countries whose political, social and economic institutions come under the control of a few families, in the United States, the Organized Crime Control Act defines organized crime as he unlawful activities of a highly organized, disciplined association. Criminal activity as a process is referred to as racketeering. In the UK, police estimate that organized crime involves up to 38,000 people operating in 6,000 various groups, bureaucratic/corporate organized crime groups are defined by the general rigidity of their internal structures. An estimate on youth street gangs nationwide provided by Hannigan, et al. marked an increase of 35% between 2002 and 2010, the term “street gang” is commonly used interchangeably with “youth gang, ” referring to neighborhood or street-based youth groups that meet “gang” criteria. Some reasons youth join gangs include to feel accepted, attain status, a sense of unity brings together many of the youth gangs that lack the family aspect at home. Zones of transition are deteriorating neighborhoods with shifting populations, in such areas, conflict between groups, fighting, turf wars, and theft promote solidarity and cohesion. Participation in gang-related events during adolescence perpetuate a pattern of maltreatment on their own children years later, klein like Spergel studied the effects on members of social workers’ interventions. More interventions actually lead to greater participation and solidarity and bonds between members. Downes and Rock on Parker’s analysis, strain theory applies, labeling theory, control theory and these may also be defined by age or peer group influences, and the permanence or consistency of their criminal activity. These groups also form their own identity or public representation which are recognizable by the community at large. Some studied street gangs involved in drug dealing - finding that their structure, members saw themselves as organized criminals, gangs were formal-rational organizations, Strong organizational structures, well defined roles and rules that guided members’ behavior. Also a specified and regular means of income, padilla agreed with the two above. However some have found these to be rather than well-defined and lacking persistent focus, there was relatively low cohesion, few shared goals

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Free State of Galveston
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The Free State of Galveston was a whimsical name given to the coastal city of Galveston in the U. S. state of Texas during the early-to-mid-20th century. Today, the term is used to describe the culture. During the Roaring Twenties, Galveston Island emerged as a resort town. Gambling, illegal liquor, and other vice-oriented businesses were a part of tourism. The Free State moniker embodied a belief held by many locals that Galveston was beyond what they perceived were repressive mores and laws of Texas and the United States. The success of vice on the island, despite being illegal, was enabled by lax attitudes in the society, much of this period represented a high point in Galvestons economy. It is sometimes referred to as the era or the wide-open era because the business owners. The tourist industry spawned by the illegal businesses helped to offset Galvestons decline as a commercial, however, crackdowns against gambling and prostitution in Texas during the mid-20th century made these businesses increasingly difficult to sustain. By the 1950s, this era of Galvestons history had ended, the island of Galveston, which lies on the Gulf of Mexico, held one of the first major settlements in the eastern part of what is now Texas. During the mid-to-late-19th century, it became the largest city in the state and its downtown was known as the Wall Street of the Southwest and by 1900 the city had one of the highest per capita incomes in the U. S. Though nearby Houston was emerging as an important city in its own right, Galveston was the states cultural and economic center at the time. Vices such as prostitution and gambling, which were common throughout Texas during the 19th century, the 1900 Galveston hurricane was an unparalleled disaster. According to some estimates 6,000 people died on the island, in addition to more on the Gulf Coast. In the same year, the Galveston–Houston Electric Railway opened and became recognized as the fastest interurban rail system in the country, Galvestons port was also rebuilt quickly, and by 1912 had become the second-leading exporter in the nation, behind New York. Nevertheless, after the 1900 storm and another in 1915, many avoided investing in the island, Galveston had been a major port of entry for Texas and the West during the 19th century, and a new wave of immigration came through the port in the early 20th century. For a time it was known as Little Ellis Island, of particular note are the Sicilian immigrants who formed a significant community in Galveston County, as well as the nearby city of Brazoria. The opening of the Houston Ship Channel in 1915 further challenged the port city, cotton shipping, which Galveston had thoroughly dominated on a worldwide level, began migrating to other ports in Texas and on the West Coast. As Galvestons traditional economy declined, Texas oil boom began in 1901, with oil wells, Galvestons direct role in this boom was minimal as investors avoided building pipelines and refineries on the island itself

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Postcard view of Beach Boulevard and the Hotel Galvez, early 1940s
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The Beach Hotel, a popular 19th-century Galveston resort
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Murdoch's Bathhouse, once a popular Galveston attraction (ca. 1919)
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The Hotel Galvez

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Arrowhead Highway
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The Arrowhead Trail or Arrowhead Highway was the first all-weather road connecting Los Angeles to Salt Lake City by way of Las Vegas. Small portions of the route in California and Las Vegas, Las Vegas Boulevard, are still referred to by the name. Starting in 1915, Charles H. Bigelow drove the route many times to generate publicity for the road. The Arrowhead Trail initially took a route via present US95. The Silver Lake cutoff, which would save about 90 miles, was proposed by 1920, the initial plan for the U. S. Highway system simply stated that Route No.91 would run from Las Vegas to an intersection with Route No. 60, but in 1926 the cutoff was chosen, ending at US66 at Daggett, the original routing south from Las Vegas to Needles later became part of US95 in 1940. The new cutoff route was added to the secondary system in 1926. The new routing followed the present I-15, except through Baker. It entered San Bernardino on Cajon Boulevard, then followed the route of Arrow Highway between San Bernardino and Los Angeles. This route is still called Arrow Route or Arrow Highway through parts of Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Montclair, the Clark County, Nevada sections of the trail are marked by Nevada Historical Markers 168 and 197. California State Route 91 Interstate 15 Nevada State Route 169 Las Vegas Boulevard Arrowhead Trail article on americanroads. com U. S, roads portal California portal Nevada portal Utah portal

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Los Angeles Police Department
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The Los Angeles Police Department, officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department, the department serves an area of 498 square miles and a population of 4,030,904 people. The LAPD has been fictionalized in numerous movies, novels, the department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racism, police brutality, and police corruption. The first specific Los Angeles police force was founded in 1853, as the Los Angeles Rangers, the Rangers were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group. Neither force was particularly efficient and Los Angeles became known for its violence, gambling, the first paid force was created in 1869, when six officers were hired to serve under City Marshal William C. Warren. By 1900, under John M. Glass, there were 70 officers, in 1903, with the start of the Civil Service, this force was increased to 200. During World War II, under Clemence B, horrall, the overall number of personnel was depleted by the demands of the military. Despite efforts to maintain numbers, the police could do little to control the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, Parker advocated police professionalism and autonomy from civilian administration. However, the Bloody Christmas scandal in 1951 led to calls for civilian accountability, under Parker, LAPD created the first SWAT team in United States law enforcement. Officer John Nelson and then-Inspector Daryl Gates created the program in 1965 to deal with threats from radical organizations such as the Black Panther Party operating during the Vietnam War era. The old headquarters for the LAPD was Parker Center, named former chief William H. Parker. The new headquarters is the new Police Administration Building located at 100 W. 1st St. immediately south of Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners also known as the Police Commission, is a five-member body of appointed officials which oversees the LAPD. The board is responsible for setting policies for the department and overseeing the LAPDs overall management, the Chief of Police reports to the board, but the rest of the department reports to the chief. The Office of the Inspector General is an independent part of the LAPD that has oversight over the department’s internal disciplinary process and it was created by the recommendation of the Christopher Commission and it is exempt from civil service and reports directly to the Board of Police Commissioners. The current Inspector General is Alexander A. Bustamante who was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney, the OIG receives copies of every complaint filed against members of the LAPD as well as tracking specific cases along with any resultant litigation. The OIG also conducts audits on select investigations and conducts regular reviews of the system in order to ensure fairness. As well as overseeing the LAPDs disciplinary process, the Inspector General may undertake special investigations as directed by the Board of Police Commissioners, the Office of the Chief of Police is the administrative office comprising the Chief of Staff and the Employee Relations Group. The majority of the LAPDs approximately 10,000 officers are assigned within the Office of Operations, an Assistant Chief, currently First Assistant Chief Michel Moore, commands the office, and reports directly to the chief of police

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Caesars Palace
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Caesars Palace is a AAA Four Diamond luxury hotel and casino in Paradise, Nevada, United States, situated on the west side of the Las Vegas Strip, between Bellagio and The Mirage. It is one of the most prestigious hotels in the world. Caesars Palace was established in 1966 by Jay Sarno, who sought to create an opulent facility that gave guests a sense of life during the Roman Empire. It contains many statues, columns and iconography typical of Hollywood Roman period productions, Caesars Palace is now owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. As of July 2016, the hotel has 3,976 rooms and suites in six towers, the hotel has a large range of restaurants, including several serving authentic Chinese cuisine to cater to wealthy East Asian gamblers. From the outset, Caesars Palace has been oriented towards attracting high rollers, the hotel is closely associated with the entertainment industry and has served as a venue for boxing since the late 1970s, and hosted the Caesars Palace Grand Prix from 1981 to 1982. Notable entertainers who have performed at Caesars Palace include Frank Sinatra, the main performance venue is The Colosseum, a 4, 296-seat stadium with a 22, 450-square-foot stage, which was originally built at a cost of $95 million for Celine Dions show, A New Day. After departing in 2007, Dion returned to the Colosseum with her new show entitled Celine in March 2011, in 1962, cabana motel owners Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin applied for a $10.6 million loan from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. He began plans to build a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian, Sarno would later act as designer of the hotel he planned to construct. He wanted to emulate life under the Roman Empire, to come up with a palace in which everybody staying at the hotel would feel like a Caesar. Caesars Palace was instrumental in beginning a new era of lavish casinos from the late 1960s onward, Architectural writer Alan Hess stated, Caesars Palace needed only a sumptuous array of Classical statuary and a host of marble-white columns to establish its theme. The visitors imagination, in league with well-placed publicity, filled in the opulence, jefferson Graham wrote that the result was the gaudiest, weirdest, most elaborate, and most talked about resort Vegas had ever seen. Emblem was a chesty female dipping grapes into the mouth of a recumbent Roman, fitted out in toga, laurel wreath. Cocktail waitresses in Greco-Roman wigs would greet guests and say Welcome to Caesars Palace, among the performers at the opening were Andy Williams and Phil Richards. According to author Ovid Demaris, Caesars Palace was a casino from the day it opened its doors. By the time it opened, the significant publicity of the new hotel had generated $42 million in advanced bookings. On December 31,1967, stunt performer Evel Knievel arrived at the hotel to watch a boxing match and convinced Sarno that he could jump over the distance of 140 feet over the fountains. ABC came in to film the jump, in which Knievel hit the top of the safety ramp after the jump, fracturing his pelvis, several bones and suffering a concussion, he lay in a hospital unconscious for 29 days in a coma before recovering

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Kirk Kerkorian
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Kerkor Kirk Kerkorian was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his holding company based in Beverly Hills. Kerkorian is known for having one of the important figures in the shaping of Las Vegas and, with architect Martin Stern. He built the worlds largest hotel in Las Vegas three times, the International Hotel, the MGM Grand Hotel and the MGM Grand and he purchased the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1969. Of Armenian American origin, Kerkorian provided over $1 billion for charity in Armenia through his Lincy Foundation and it was established in 1989 and was particularly focused on helping to rebuild northern Armenia after the 1988 earthquake. In 2000 Time magazine named him the 10th largest donor in the US. Kerkorian was declared an honorary citizen of Armenia by President Robert Kocharyan in September 1998 and he was bestowed the title of National Hero of Armenia, the highest state award, by Kocharyan in May 2004. Kerkor Kerkorian was born on June 6,1917 in Fresno, California, Armenian was his first language and he didnt learn the English language until we hit the streets. His family moved to Los Angeles following the depression of 1920–21, Kirk Kerkorian also had a younger sister, Rose Kerkorian. In exchange for flying lessons from pioneer aviator Pancho Barnes, he agreed to milk, on gaining his commercial pilots certificate in six months, Kerkorian learned that the British Royal Air Force was ferrying Canadian-built de Havilland Mosquitos over the North Atlantic to Scotland. The Mosquitos fuel tank carried enough fuel for 1,400 miles, the fee was $1,000 per flight. While accounts claim the risk was that one in four failed to make it. In May 1944, Kerkorian and his Wing Commander John de Lacy Wooldridge rode the wave, Wooldridge got to Scotland in six hours,46 minutes, Kerkorian, in seven hours, nine minutes. In two and a half years with RAF Ferry Command, Kerkorian delivered 33 planes, logged thousands of hours, traveled to four continents, after the war, having saved most of his wages, Kerkorian spent $5,000 on a Cessna. He worked as an aviation pilot, and made his first visit to Las Vegas in 1944. He then bid on some war surplus bombers, using money on loan from the Seagram family. Gasoline, and especially airplane fuel, was in short supply at the time, so he sold the fuel from the tanks, paid off his loan. He operated the airline until 1968 when he sold it for $104 million to the Transamerica Corporation, in 1962, Kerkorian bought 80 acres in Las Vegas, across the Las Vegas Strip from the Flamingo, for $960,000. This purchase led to the building of Caesars Palace, which rented the land from Kerkorian, on November 21,1980, the original MGM Grand burned in a fire that was one of the worst disasters in Las Vegas history

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Las Vegas Hilton
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The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino is a hotel and casino in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned by Westgate Resorts and operated by Navegante Group and it has 2,956 hotel rooms, including 305 suites. It opened in 1969 as the International Hotel, and was known for years as the Las Vegas Hilton, then briefly as the LVH – Las Vegas Hotel. It was renamed the Westgate Las Vegas on July 1,2014, the hotel is 30 stories tall with a height of 114.30 meter /375.00 feet. Located on 64 acres, it has a 74,000 square feet casino and is home to the largest sports book in Las Vegas. The hotel is located next to the Las Vegas Convention Center and has its own 200,000 sq ft convention center, the hotel, designed by architect Martin Stern, Jr. was built in 1969 by Kirk Kerkorian and opened originally as the International Hotel. When it opened, the International was the largest hotel in the world, barbra Streisand was the opening-night performer, along with Peggy Lee performing afterwards in the hotels lounge. He broke his own record in February 1970, and again in August 1970. When playing Las Vegas, he lived in the suite, located on the 30th floor. Elvis was due to perform again in 1978, to celebrate the opening of the North tower. His manager, Colonel Tom Parker lived in the hotel on the 4th floor from the 1970s to mid-1980s, the International Hotel was sold to Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1970 and renamed the Las Vegas Hilton in 1971. Liberace headlined in the showroom during the 1970s, drawing sold-out crowds twice per night, when he signed his contract at the Hilton in 1972 he earned $300,000 per week, a record amount for individual entertainers in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Hilton was the site in 1978 where Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali for the World Heavyweight Championship and it was also the site in which Mike Tyson defeated Tony Tucker to unify and become the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion in 1986. Also, Donald Curry defeated Milton McCrory at the Las Vegas Hilton to unify, in 1998, Hilton Hotels Corporation split their properties and stock into two different companies. Shortly after the split, Hilton Gaming Company merged with Bally Entertainment Corporation, the company was renamed Park Place Entertainment. In 2000, Park Place Entertainment purchased Caesars World, in 2003 Park Place Entertainment changed their name to Caesars Entertainment. In 2004, Caesars Entertainment sold the Las Vegas Hilton to Colony Capital LLC for $280 million, Colony Capital transferred the property to its subsidiary, Resorts International Holdings. The Las Vegas Hilton became Resorts Internationals anchor property, with their office located on the second floor of the east tower

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Rossiya Hotel
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The Rossiya Hotel, also known as Russia Hotel, was a large five-star international hotel built in Moscow from 1964 until 1967 at the order of the Soviet government. Construction used the foundations of a cancelled skyscraper project, the Zaryadye Administrative Building. Large portions of a district of Moscow, known as Zaryadye, were demolished in the 1940s for the original project. It was registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest hotel in the world until it was surpassed by the Excalibur in Las Vegas and it remained the largest hotel in Europe until its 2006 closure. The building could accommodate over 4,000 guests, most of the rooms were 11 square metres. The hotel was adjacent to Red Square, its 21-storey tower looming over the Kremlin walls, on February 25,1977, a huge fire in the building killed 42 and injured 50. The high death and injury rate was exacerbated because the hotel had very few exits in order to make it difficult for guests to enter or exit unseen by the ever watchful hotel staff, the Rossiya Hotel officially closed its doors on January 1,2006. Demolition of the began in March 2006 for an entertainment complex loosely based on the design of the old Zaryadye district. The project is being overseen by British architect Sir Norman Foster and includes plans for a new, in October 2006 the Supreme Arbitration Court cancelled the results of a tender to reconstruct the Rossiya hotel near the Kremlin. In 2013 it was announced that a park would be developed on the site of the hotel. Detailed description of the Rossiya Hotel

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Bally Manufacturing
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For the fitness chain, see Bally Total Fitness. It was acquired by Hilton Hotels in 1995 and its brand name is still used by several businesses previously linked to Bally Manufacturing, most notably Bally Technologies. The Bally Manufacturing Corporation was founded by Raymond Moloney on January 10,1932, the company took its name from its first game, Ballyhoo. The company, based in Chicago, quickly became a maker of the games. In the late 1930s, Moloney began making gambling equipment, and had success developing and improving the mechanical slot machines that were the core of the nascent gaming industry. The company made a venture into the music business with their own record label. Ray Moloney died in 1958, and the company floundered briefly, with the financial failure of its parent company, Bally was bought out by a group of investors in 1963. Throughout the 1960s, Bally continued to dominate the slot machine industry, in 1964, Bally introduced the first electromechanical slot machine, called the Money Honey. In the late 1970s, Bally entered the business when New Jersey legalized gambling in Atlantic City. This effort moved forward even though the company was unable to attain a permanent license for the completed casino. During this period, company head William T. ODonnell was forced to resign because of alleged links to organized crime, prior to this, Mr ODonnell strenuously denied any such links. He also denied knowing Chicago mobster, Joseph Dan Testa, even though Australian Police described Testa as a representative of Bally who visited Australia, the company opened the Park Place Casino & Hotel on December 29,1979. Also in the late 1970s, Bally made an entry into the market for home computer games. The Bally Professional Arcade, as the machine was called, had advanced features for the time and these included a palette of 256 colors and the ability to play 4-voice music. The machine also shipped with a cartridge that allowed users to do an amount of programming on the machine themselves. The machines price point was above the Atari 2600, and it had a more limited set of available games. Despite a loyal following, it failed to compete successfully, the health club division, under Bally Total Fitness, grew during the 1980s and 1990s. This expansion quickly took its toll on the finances, and Bally was soon forced to sell off several divisions, including Six Flags

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Logo of Bally Manufacturing

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Stardust Hotel
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The Stardust Resort and Casino was a casino resort located on 63 acres along the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. The Stardust opened in 1958, although most of the casino complex — including its main 32-story tower — was built in 1991. It was demolished on March 13,2007, a short lifetime even by Las Vegas standards, shortly after the resort opened, the defunct nearby Royal Nevada hotel and casino was converted to become part of the Stardust. The Stardust officially closed at 12,00 p. m. on November 1,2006 and it was imploded on March 13,2007, around 2,33 a. m. In 2007, Boyd Gaming, which owned the property, began construction on Echelon Place, construction was halted in 2008, however, during the economic downturn. In 2013, Malaysia-based Genting Group bought the site from Boyd, with plans to open Resorts World, the famed Stardust sign became one of the symbols of Las Vegas. Young Electric Sign Company was hired to fabricate the sign, kermit Waynes design was selected for both the façade and the roadside signs. Although Moe Dalitz, who took over from original developer Tony Cornero upon his death, said it was from his original plans, the Stardust sign gave visitors a panoramic view of the solar system. At the signs center sat a 16-foot diameter plastic model of the Earth, cosmic rays of neon and electric light bulbs beamed from behind the model Earth in all direction. Three-dimensional acrylic glass planets spun alongside 20 scintillating neon starbursts, across the universe was a jagged galaxy of electric lettering spelling out Stardust. The sign utilized 7,100 ft of tubing with over 11,000 bulbs along its 216 ft front. The S alone contained 975 lamps, at night the neon constellation was reportedly visible 60 miles away. The roadside sign was freestanding with a circle constraining an amorphous cloud of cosmic dust circled by an orbit ring, the hotels name was nestled in a galactic cloud. In 1967, the old sign was replaced by a new $500,000 roadside sign. The new signs form was blurred by a scatter of star shapes, at night, incorporating neon and incandescent bulbs in the animation sequence, light fell from the stars, sprinkling from the top of the 188-foot tall sign down over the Stardust name. In 1991, the Stardust signs Googie lettering was replaced with a subdued Futura typeface, the Royal Nevada was the previous hotel on part of the Stardust site. The Royal Nevada opened north of the New Frontier on April 19,1955, as the Showplace of Showtown, the resorts crowning glory was the crown that sat on top of the resort. The night before the opening, atomic soldiers were treated to a pre-opening party, the Royal Nevada was plagued with financial problems from the start

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Sahara Hotel and Casino
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The SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned by Stockbridge Real Estate, the hotel was formerly known as the Sahara Hotel and Casino. It was in operation under that name for 59 years from 1952 to 2011, the hotel had 1,720 guestrooms and suites with a casino covering more than 85,000 square feet, and sits on 55 acres including the All Net Resort and Arena. The hotel is the site of the SLS station, the northernmost stop for the Las Vegas Monorail, the SLS anchored the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The renovated property reopened on August 23,2014, after a $415 million renovation as part of SBEs chain of SLS hotels, the first casino built on the site was the Club Bingo, which opened in 1947. Owner Milton Prell replaced the casino with a new hotel in 1952 called the Sahara Hotel. It was located just outside the City of Las Vegas, and was the resort to open on the Strip. The resort was built by Del Webb, the Sahara was one of the last remaining vintage Rat Pack casino-hotels, leaving only the Flamingo, Caesars Palace and The Tropicana. The porte-cochere entrance, topped by a minaret, was designed to set the resorts warm Moroccan flavor. In late 1954, the hotel hired jazz musician Louis Prima to be their late night lounge act, along with his then-wife Keely Smith and sax player Sam Butera, they created one of the hottest late-night attractions on the Strip. In 1956, Abbott and Costello appeared together for the last time on the Sahara stage before their permanent breakup, the hotel constructed the first high-rise tower on the Strip in 1959, designed by Martin Stern. In 1961, the hotel was purchased by Del Webb, in 1962, a Don the Beachcomber restaurant opened in the hotel, becoming a top attraction to not only hotel guests but a variety of celebrities as well. A 24-story tower was added in 1963, which made the hotel the tallest building in Las Vegas, the resort was the site of the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for many years, mostly in the 1970s, and for a brief time in the 1990s. Performers at the resort over the years have included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, in 1964, The Beatles stayed at the Sahara and played two shows at the nearby Las Vegas Convention Center. Del Webb ran into problems in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He sold the Sahara to Paul Lowden for $50 million in 1982, ownership changed in 1995, when Archon Corporation sold the property to Bill Bennett. Bill Bennett owned the hotel until his death on December 22,2002, the 27-story tower addition was added in 1987, and a new porte-cochere was added by the relocated pool in 1997. In 1999, further added a roller coaster and a restaurant

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Don Rickles
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Donald Jay Rickles was an American stand-up comedian and actor. P. O. Potato Head in the Toy Story series and he won a Primetime Emmy Award for the 2007 documentary Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project. His family was Jewish and spoke Yiddish at home, Rickles grew up in the Jackson Heights area. After graduating from Newtown High School, Rickles enlisted in the U. S. Navy and he was honorably discharged in 1946. Two years later, intending to be an actor, he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Frustrated by a lack of acting work, Rickles began performing comedy in clubs in New York, Miami. He became known as a comedian when he responded to his hecklers. The audience enjoyed these insults more than his material. When he began his career in the early 1950s, he started calling ill-mannered members of the hockey puck. His style was similar to that of an insult comic, Jack E. Leonard. He added, Make yourself at home, Frank, Sinatra, whose pet name for Rickles was bullet-head, enjoyed him so much that he encouraged other celebrities to see Rickles act and be insulted by him. Sinatras support helped Rickles become a headline performer in Las Vegas. During a Dean Martin Roast special, Rickles was among those who took part in a roast of Sinatra, Rickles earned the nicknames The Merchant of Venom and Mr. Warmth for his poking fun at people of all ethnicities and walks of life. Rickles said, I always pictured myself facing the audience as the matador, in 1958, Rickles made his film debut in a serious part in Run Silent, Run Deep with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Throughout the 1960s, he appeared on television in sitcoms. Rickles guest-starred in Get Smart as Sid, an old war buddy of Max who comes to stay with him. In an episode of the 1960s drama series Run for Your Life, Rickles took a dramatic turn in the low-budget Roger Corman film X, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes as a carnival barker out to exploit the title character. Rickles appeared in the popular Beach Party film series and he recalled in his 2007 memoir that at a White House dinner, Barbara Bush teased him about his decision to appear in those films

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Treasure Island Hotel and Casino
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Since March 2009, TI is owned and operated by real estate investor Phil Ruffin. The hotel received the AAA Four Diamond rating each year from 1999 through 2013, Treasure Island was opened by Mirage Resorts in 1993 under the direction of Steve Wynn at a cost of US$450 million. The initial plans called for an addition to The Mirage. The resort was designed by architect Jon Jerde in collaboration with Steve Wynn along with Roger Thomas who designed the interior of Treasure Island Hotel. In 2003, the largely abandoned its pirate theme for a more contemporary resort choosing to provide primarily adult amenities and services. The original video arcade and kid-friendly pool areas were replaced with a party bar, hot tub, the famous skull-and-crossbones sign at the Strip entrance was replaced by a dual-purpose TI marquee displaying the hotel logo and serving as a large LCD video screen. The exterior color of the hotel was changed from a light orange to a darker maroon color. On December 15,2008, MGM Mirage announced the resort would be sold for US$775 million to Phil Ruffin, former owner of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino. Ruffin took full ownership of the hotel and casino resort on Friday, exhibit, which opened May 26,2016. On June 18,2016, Michael Steven Sandford attempted to assassinate presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally held at Treasure Island. In 1994, shortly after the launch, a promotional TV movie, Treasure Island. The film, starring Jason Beghe, featured the implosion of The Dunes, an alternative ending to the movie was that the Average Joes lost the dodgeball tournament, but got their money back when Steve won it at Treasure Island. In the movie Miss Congeniality 2, a fight scene took place in the lagoon. Treasure Island appears in the video game Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas, in the game it is called Pirates in Mens Pants. In the movie Knocked Up, Ben and Pete see Mystère by Cirque du Soleil at Treasure Island during their trip to Las Vegas. In the video game Driver 2, Treasure Island can be seen in the Las Vegas level where its been named Pirates Island, in the NBC television show Las Vegas, the ending of the season 2 premiere episode was filmed at the hotel. Treasure Island is often seen during fly-over images of the Las Vegas Strip in the television drama series CSI. Many shots in the television show Las Vegas are filmed as though they are in Treasure Island, the resort is home to Cirque du Soleils Mystère, which introduced the entertainment style of Franco Dragone

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Video arcade
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In some countries, some types of arcades are also legally permitted to provide gambling machines such as slot machines or pachinko machines. Games are usually housed in cabinets, the term used for ancestors of these venues in the beginning of 20th century was penny arcades. Video games were introduced in amusement arcades in the late 1970s and were most popular during the age of arcade video games. Arcades became popular with children and particularly adolescents, which led parents to be concerned that video game playing might cause them to skip school, a penny arcade can be any type of venue for coin-operated devices, usually for entertainment. The term came into use about 1905-1910, the name derives from the penny, once a staple coin for the machines. Coin operated shooter games Penny arcades later led to the creation of video arcades in the 1970s, Arcades catering for video games began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders and Galaxian and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man, Centipede and others. The central processing unit in these games allowed for more complexity than earlier games such as Ataris Pong. This emphasis on the gameplay explains why many of these continue to be enjoyed as of 2014. The golden age of arcade games in the 1980s became a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation. Color arcade games became more prevalent and video arcades themselves started appearing outside their traditional bowling-alley, designers experimented with a wide variety of game genres, while developers still had to work within strict limits of available processor-power and memory. The era saw the spread of video arcades across North America, Western Europe. The number of arcades in North America, for example. Beginning with Space Invaders, video games also started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, liquor stores, gas stations. This boom came to an end in the mid-1980s, in what has been referred to as the great coin-op video crash of 1983, on November 30,1982, Jerry Parker, the Mayor of Ottumwa, Iowa, declared his city the Video Game Capital of the World. This initiative resulted in many firsts in video game history, playing a central role in arcade history, Ottumwa saw the birth of the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard and the U. S. National Video Game Team, two organizations that still exist today. These systems essentially provided arcade-only consoles where the video game ROM could be swapped easily to replace a game and this allowed easier development and replacement of games, but it also discouraged the hardware innovation necessary to stay ahead of the technology curve. In fact, several arcade systems such as Segas NAOMI board are arcade versions of home systems, the arcade industry entered a major slump in mid-1994. In the late 1990s, a bar opened in the new Crown Casino complex in Melbourne, Barcode was a games bar with the latest arcade games, the classics, pool tables, air hockey and pinball machines which you could play while consuming alcohol

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GiGO, a large 6 floor Sega game center on Chuo Dori, in front of the LAOX Aso-Bit-City in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan
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Early machine at Wookey Hole Caves
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A 2000s arcade machine which involves stopping a light to receive tickets for redemption.
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A Wizard of Oz pushing game that can be found at many arcades today.

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Adventuredome
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The Adventuredome, formerly known as the Grand Slam Canyon, is a 5-acre indoor amusement park located at Circus Circus in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Las Vegas Strip. Because the park is enclosed, it is not affected by cold, rainy, or windy weather, unlike most theme parks, every October since 2003, the Adventuredome is changed to Fright Dome as a Halloween-themed theme park. The Adventuredome opened on August 23,1993 in the west parking lot of the hotel and it sits on a reinforced 18 thick deck elevated 18 feet above ground. The dome itself consists of over 350,000 sq ft of pink tinted, insulated glass over a green space frame. Each pane of glass weighs approximately 300 lb, the buildings dome design was created entirely out of pink tinted glass, with each pane weighing approximately 300 lb. The dome itself consists of over 350,000 sq ft of insulated glass placed over a teal green frame. Construction took a little over a year to complete, and the park was opened on August 23,1993 as the Grand Slam Canyon. The dinosaur theme consisted of eight large animatronic dinosaurs spread throughout the park, though visitors could not ride them, the dinosaurs often interacted with the visitors, with some spitting water on guests. Grand Slam Canyon, as indicated by its name, was inspired by the Grand Canyon and originally featured river-rapid rides. Grand Slam Canyon was initially popular, but visitors often expressed their desire for things to do. Following the feedback, the park was closed for 45 days beginning in April 1994 to remodel, during the remodeling, several family-friendly attractions were added, such as Midway shows, Canyon Cars, Sand Pirates, Miner Mike, Thunderbirds, and Drifters. The Twist N Shout water raft ride was removed to make way for several of these rides, solely due to its size, after the remodeling, as space became available, rides were added to the theme park one or two at a time every few years. Near the laser tag arena, for example, management added a rock climbing wall, though initially hesitant to add the golf course out of concern for the parks glass dome, as of July 29,2014, there has not been a single golf ball incident. The park was renamed Adventuredome on May 1,1998, in 1999, management tried to keep up with the latest developments in the industry by consulting visitor surveys. This resulted in the addition of several dynamic thrill rides across the few years, including the Inverter that same year, Chaos in 2001, the Frog Hopper in 2002. On February 3,2013, the Rim Runner was permanently closed to make way for a roller coaster named El Loco. El Loco officially opened on February 18,2014, the current and former attractions at the amusement park are provided below. In the 1999 film Baby Geniuses, the Adventuredome makes an appearance as the fictional Joyworld theme park, sly starts the Canyon Blaster ride with two scientists on board and restraints still open

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Fashion Show Mall
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Fashion Show Mall is a shopping mall located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, and is owned by General Growth Properties Inc. The mall spans 1,888,151 sq ft of space, with more than 250 stores and seven anchors, the Fashion Show Mall opened on February 14,1981, anchored by Diamonds, Bullocks, Goldwaters, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Diamonds was converted to a Dillards store in 1986, Goldwaters became a May Company in 1989 and then a Robinsons-May in 1993, in 2003, a major expansion of the mall was completed. 200,000 square feet of space was built, extending out of the backside of the mall between Robinsons-May and Macys. Dillards and Saks Fifth Avenue moved to new, larger locations in this new wing, alongside a Bloomingdales Home store and Nordstrom. Neiman Marcus, Macys, and Robinsons-May expanded their stores, and the former Saks Fifth Avenue was razed and replaced by restaurants, a food court. The former Dillards store, previously meant to house Lord & Taylor, the malls parent company Rouse was purchased by General Growth Properties in 2004. On September 9,2006, following Federateds purchase of May Department Stores, the store was shuttered in 2008 and remained empty until 2013, when it was converted into a wing of shops and a separate Macys Men store. In January 2013, Macys announced it would close the Bloomingdales Home store and that building remained empty until 2015, when Dicks Sporting Goods announced it would take over the building. W. Robinsons Robinsons-May Fashion Show Official Site Macys Closing Bloomingdales at Fashion Show

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Fashion Show Mall as seen from the Strip with The Cloud in the center
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Neiman Marcus with the Las Vegas Boulevard and Spring Mountain Road intersection
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A crowd of holiday shoppers gather as Santa and his helpers put on a Christmas show atop the mall's built-in fashion show runway (November 23, 2007)

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Macau
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Macau, also spelled Macao, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River Delta in East Asia. Macau is bordered by the city of Zhuhai in Mainland China to the north, Hong Kong lies about 64 kilometres to its east across the Delta. With a population of 650,900 living in an area of 30.5 km2, Macau was administered by the Portuguese Empire and its inheritor states from the mid-16th century until late 1999, when it constituted the last remaining European colony in Asia. Portuguese traders first settled in Macau in the 1550s, in 1557, Macau was leased to Portugal from Ming China as a trading port. The Portuguese Empire administered the city under Chinese authority and sovereignty until 1887, sovereignty over Macau was transferred back to China on 20 December 1999. The Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau and Macau Basic Law stipulate that Macau operate with a degree of autonomy until at least 2049. Macau participates in international organizations and events that do not require members to national sovereignty. Macau is a city in Southern China, known for its casinos. Its gaming revenue has been the worlds largest since 2006, with the heavily dependent on gaming. According to The World Factbook, Macau has the fourth highest life expectancy in the world, the present Chinese name means Inlet Gates. Macau is otherwise known in Chinese as Haojing or Jinghai, the name Macau is thought to be derived from the A-Ma Temple, a temple built in 1448 dedicated to Mazu, the goddess of seafarers and fishermen. It is said that when the Portuguese sailors landed at the coast just outside the temple and asked the name of the place, the Portuguese then named the peninsula Macau. The history of Macau is traced back to the Qin dynasty, the first recorded Chinese inhabitants of the area were people seeking refuge in Macau from invading Mongols during the Southern Song. Under the Ming dynasty, fishermen migrated to Macau from Guangdong, the Macau native people were Tanka boat people. Macau did not develop as a settlement until the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century. In 1513, Jorge Álvares became the first Portuguese to land in China, in 1535, Portuguese traders obtained the rights to anchor ships in Macaus harbours and to carry out trading activities, though not the right to stay onshore. In 1557, the Portuguese established a permanent settlement in Macau, the Portuguese continued to pay an annual tribute up to 1863 in order to stay in Macau. By 1564, Portugal commanded western trade with India, Japan, but their pride was damaged by the indifference with which the Chinese treated them

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Portuguese coin (minted 1996) commemorating the arrival of the Portuguese in China in 1513
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Ruins of St. Paul's, by George Chinnery (1774–1852). The church was built in 1602 and destroyed by fire in 1835. Only the southern stone façade remains today.
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Macau, c. 1870.

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High Roller (Ferris wheel)
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High Roller is a 550-foot tall, 520-foot diameter giant Ferris wheel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States of America. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation and it opened to the public on March 31,2014, and is currently the worlds tallest Ferris wheel. It is 9 ft taller than its predecessor, the 541-foot Singapore Flyer, High Roller was announced in August 2011 as the centerpiece of Caesars Entertainment Corporations $550 million The LINQ. Arup Engineering, which previously consulted on the Singapore Flyer, acted as the structural engineer, the wheel rotates on a pair of custom-designed spherical roller bearings, each weighing approximately 19,400 lb. Each bearing has an diameter of 7.55 feet, an inner bore of 5.25 feet. The passenger cabins are mounted on the wheels rim and are individually rotated by electric motors to smoothly maintain a horizontal cabin floor throughout each full rotation. Preliminary designs anticipated 32 passenger cabins, each with a 40-passenger capacity —with the final design accommodating 28 40-person cabins and a total capacity of 1,120 passengers. Each 225-square-foot cabin weighs approximately 44,000 pounds, has a diameter of 22 feet, includes 300 square feet of glass, and is equipped with eight flat-screen televisions and an iPod dock. Located on Las Vegas Boulevard, across from Caesars Palace, construction was scheduled to begin in September 2011 with a late 2013 completion. The outer rim of the wheel was completed on September 9,2013, the first passenger cabin was delivered and installed in November 2013 and the final cabin was installed the following month. After preliminary testing, High Rollers lighting system was illuminated at sunset on February 28,2014, High Roller opened to the public at 4 p. m. EST on March 31,2014. Tickets were originally expected to cost less than $20 per ride, when High Roller opened to the public in March 2014, tickets for a single 30-minute ride, the time taken for the entire wheel to rotate once, cost $24.95 and $34.95. Other ticket options included a $59.95 Express Pass, allowing the holder to skip the line and ride any time. Both the New York Wheel, in the United States, erection of the main support structure is due to begin early in 2017, and it is expected to open in April 2018. The 210 m Ain Dubai was announced in February 2013, with construction to begin in June 2013, construction eventually began almost two years behind schedule in May 2015. Erection of the support structure was completed in 2016 and it is now expected to open in 2017

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High Roller nearing completion, January 2014
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High Roller under construction, March 2013
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The Cromwell Las Vegas
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The Cromwell Las Vegas is a luxury boutique hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation, the property was the site of Empeys Desert Villa from 1952. In 1979 it became the Barbary Coast casino and hotel, the casino was built by Michael Gaughan and opened on March 2,1979 at a cost of $11.5 million. Over time, this property, along with others owned by Gaughan would become Coast Casinos Inc, Gaughan shared partnership in the Barbary Coast with Kenny Epstein, Tito Tiberti, Frank Toti and Jerry Herbst. In July 2005, Boyd Gaming purchased the Barbary Coast Hotel, in September 2005, Boyd purchased the 4.3 acres of land the hotel occupied for $16 million. The hotel had previously been leasing the land, in 2007, Boyd gave the Barbary Coast to Harrahs Entertainment in exchange for the 24-acre site of the demolished Westward Ho, to be used for the Echelon Place project. The Barbary Coast closed at 2,00 a. m. on February 27 and reopened on March 1 as the newly rebranded Bills Gamblin Hall and Saloon, in honor of company founder Bill Harrah. After nearly six years of operations, Bills closed on February 4,2013. Plans called for renovation of the entire property, the guest rooms and casino floor, a new restaurant. In October 2013, however, Caesars terminated its agreement with Gansevoort, plans announced in late 2013 indicated that Giada De Laurentiis would open her first restaurant in the new hotel and that Caesars would run the hotel. Caesars confirmed on January 31,2014, that the hotel would be named The Cromwell and it marked its soft opening to guests on April 21,2014. The hotel rooms were available starting May 21,2014, in July 2014, Giada De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant, called GIADA, inside the resort. The restaurant offers seating in the room, lounge, or outdoor patio with views of the Bellagio fountains. Family-style, vegan, and gluten-free options are available, as well as an antipasto station. Restaurant guests can watch chefs prepare food from the open kitchen, in 1997, Victor Drai opened Drai’s restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. Two years later, Drai added a nightclub to the restaurant, in Vegas Sevens 2012 Nightclub Awards, Drais After Hours won Best Place to Disappear. Drai opened his latest Las Vegas club project, Drai’s Beach Club & Nightclub, on Memorial Day Weekend 2014 and this 65, 000-square-foot venue has a party pool and an indoor/outdoor club spread out over two levels on top of the new Cromwell Hotel. List of Caesars Entertainment properties List of casinos in Nevada Official website

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T-Mobile Arena
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T-Mobile Arena is a multi-use indoor arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Opened on April 6,2016, the arena is a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and the Anschutz Entertainment Group, the arena will be the home of the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League that will begin play in 2017. Since its opening, T-Mobile Arena has primarily used for entertainment events such as concerts, and has been booked for one-off combat sports events. The arena is accessed by a new development project known as The Park, with retail, the Anschutz Entertainment Group first tried to build an arena in Las Vegas in association with Harrahs Entertainment. In 2007, the joint venture announced they would build a 20,000 seat stadium behind the Ballys, caesars Entertainment, Inc. had previously envisioned using the location to build a baseball park, but the companys buyout by Harrahs cancelled the plans. In 2010, the plans were changed to use an area behind the Imperial Palace, however, given the financing would require a special taxation district, opposition from Clark County regarding using public money in the project stalled it even further. AEG eventually backed out completely by 2012, once MGM Resorts International came up with their own using a terrain behind the New York-New York. This attracted AEG primarily for not relying on public funding, MGM and AEG announced their joint arena plan on March 1,2013. Other firms on the project include, the ICON Venue Group, Thornton Tomasetti, ME Engineers, Penta Building Group, the project broke ground on May 1,2014, followed by the demolition of existing buildings, and excavation of an oval area for the arena. The final steel beam of the structure was placed on May 27,2015, in January 2016, T-Mobile US announced it had acquired the naming rights to the new arena in a multi-year contract. The arena held its opening on April 6,2016 with a concert by Las Vegas natives The Killers, Shamir. Country music artists Martina McBride and Cam performed at an opening on March 31,2016. During its construction, T-Mobile Arena was prospected as the arena for a possible National Hockey League expansion team in Las Vegas. The expansion bid was approved and announced by the NHL on June 22,2016, the new team, after spending 5 years at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and 17 years at the Thomas & Mack Center, the PBR World Finals moved to the T-Mobile Arena in 2016. On March 11,2016, the Pac-12 Conference announced that it would move its mens tournament from the Grand Garden Arena to T-Mobile Arena beginning in 2017. On May 7,2016, T-Mobile Arena hosted its first major sports event and it was also speculated that the UFC had also made an offer to acquire the naming rights to the venue. T-Mobile Arena hosted UFC200 on July 9,2016, a July 7 UFC202 press conference was partially ruined by the arenas acoustics and sound system, which left many questions unheard and unanswered. White and headliners Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz criticized the quality as it deteriorated around them

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Genting Group
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Genting Group is a Malaysian conglomerate. The Genting Group was founded in 1965 by the late Malaysian entrepreneur Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, the Genting Group is headed by Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, the chairman and Chief Executive, who joined the group in 1976. The groups pioneer integrated resort is Resorts World Genting, formerly known as Genting Highlands Resort, the main attractions of the resort are its casino, theme park, concert shows, food & beverage and retail shopping. The Genting Group, via Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay is the founder of Star Cruises the third largest cruise company in the world. Star Cruises, which was renamed Genting Hong Kong in 2009, is listed on Singapore, the Genting Group currently owns about 19. 9% of Genting Hong Kong. The Group employs over 58,000 globally and possesses 4,500 hectares of prime land and 133,500 hectares of land for plantation. The groups combined market capitalisation amounted to US$24 billion as of 23 February 2016, Genting Group has assets totalling US$16.6 billion, as at 31 December 2010. Genting Berhad is the parent company and holding company that manages investment in other companies, listed on Bursa Malaysia, with market capitalisation of US$9.4 billion as at 31 December 2014. Genting Singapore PLC – – investment holding company, market Capitalisation is US$9.9 billion as of 31 December 2014. Genting UK is the largest casino operator in the United Kingdom, listed on Bursa Malaysia with market capitalisation of US$6.6 billion as of 31 December 2014. Genting Hong Kong Limited – formerly known as Star Cruises Limited, is a leading global leisure, entertainment and hospitality enterprise, listed in Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchange with US$2.8 billion market capitalisation as of 31 December 2014. Genting Plantations Berhad – this is involved in plantations, biotechnology and property, Genting Plantations owns 133,000 hectares of land in Malaysia and Indonesia. It is one of the leading and lowest cost palm oil producers in Malaysia, listed on Bursa Malaysia with US$2.2 billion market capitalisation as of 31 December 2014. Arkana, LTD – is a solely owned US-based subsidiary of Genting Berhad financing Indian gambling developments, in December 2006, Genting Group won the bid in obtaining one of two Singapore casino licences to build an integrated resort, named Resorts World Sentosa, under Genting Singapore. The project requirements includes hotel, gambling, leisure facilities, convention space, in July 2007, Genting Group disposed of its paper and packaging business. In August 2009, Genting Hong Kong opened Resorts World Manila in partnership with Alliance Global Group and it is one of four groups that won approval in 2008 to build hotels and casinos as part of Philippines US$20 billion Pagcor City development on Manila Bay. In June 2009, Genting Group supported the capital raising exercise of MGM Mirage, in September 2010, Genting New York won a bid to build a racino at Aqueduct Race Track in New York City, the first step of a planned expansion in the United States. Among the attributes of the plan was providing a diversion for passengers on long stays at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Resorts World New York opened in October 2011

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Stardust Resort and Casino
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The Stardust Resort and Casino was a casino resort located on 63 acres along the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. The Stardust opened in 1958, although most of the casino complex — including its main 32-story tower — was built in 1991. It was demolished on March 13,2007, a short lifetime even by Las Vegas standards, shortly after the resort opened, the defunct nearby Royal Nevada hotel and casino was converted to become part of the Stardust. The Stardust officially closed at 12,00 p. m. on November 1,2006 and it was imploded on March 13,2007, around 2,33 a. m. In 2007, Boyd Gaming, which owned the property, began construction on Echelon Place, construction was halted in 2008, however, during the economic downturn. In 2013, Malaysia-based Genting Group bought the site from Boyd, with plans to open Resorts World, the famed Stardust sign became one of the symbols of Las Vegas. Young Electric Sign Company was hired to fabricate the sign, kermit Waynes design was selected for both the façade and the roadside signs. Although Moe Dalitz, who took over from original developer Tony Cornero upon his death, said it was from his original plans, the Stardust sign gave visitors a panoramic view of the solar system. At the signs center sat a 16-foot diameter plastic model of the Earth, cosmic rays of neon and electric light bulbs beamed from behind the model Earth in all direction. Three-dimensional acrylic glass planets spun alongside 20 scintillating neon starbursts, across the universe was a jagged galaxy of electric lettering spelling out Stardust. The sign utilized 7,100 ft of tubing with over 11,000 bulbs along its 216 ft front. The S alone contained 975 lamps, at night the neon constellation was reportedly visible 60 miles away. The roadside sign was freestanding with a circle constraining an amorphous cloud of cosmic dust circled by an orbit ring, the hotels name was nestled in a galactic cloud. In 1967, the old sign was replaced by a new $500,000 roadside sign. The new signs form was blurred by a scatter of star shapes, at night, incorporating neon and incandescent bulbs in the animation sequence, light fell from the stars, sprinkling from the top of the 188-foot tall sign down over the Stardust name. In 1991, the Stardust signs Googie lettering was replaced with a subdued Futura typeface, the Royal Nevada was the previous hotel on part of the Stardust site. The Royal Nevada opened north of the New Frontier on April 19,1955, as the Showplace of Showtown, the resorts crowning glory was the crown that sat on top of the resort. The night before the opening, atomic soldiers were treated to a pre-opening party, the Royal Nevada was plagued with financial problems from the start

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Stardust sign as seen in 1990
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Stardust at night as seen in 2004
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Fireworks light up the Stardust hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada as demolition charges inside begin to take down the building.

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Resorts World Las Vegas
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Resorts World Las Vegas is a casino and resort currently under construction on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada, planned to open in 2019. It is owned by the Genting Group, in 2007, Boyd Gaming demolished the Stardust to develop Echelon Place, but construction was halted during the economic downturn of 2008. Boyd then sold the 87 acres site to the Genting Group for $350 million in March 2013, resorts World decided to use the construction structure of the Echelon instead of demolishing it. It was initially to break ground in 2014 and open in 2016, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 5,2015, with an expected opening date of mid-2018. Notable planned features include an exhibit and an indoor waterpark. The completed 21,847, 314-square-foot project will eventually include 4 towers totaling 6,583 rooms, in February 2016, the resorts status was considered questionable, as little construction had occurred up to that point. Genting stated in May 2016 that construction would ramp up later in the year, the company attributed the delays to the complex construction logistics of the project as well as a falling currency which has decreased the companys purchasing power globally. com

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Skyvue
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Skyvue Las Vegas Super Wheel is an unfinished giant Ferris wheel near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, US. As of 2016, only the pillars have been built. Construction of the wheel and the proposed larger 3-phase project for the site — London, Las Vegas — have been abandoned, London, Las Vegas, as suggested by the official website, was to be a 38. The Skyvue wheel, being Phase I of London, Las Vegas was intended to feature a large display billed as the largest outdoor advertising LED screen in the world. Skyvue was originally announced as being 476 ft tall, but has since been reported to be 490 ft and 500 ft. In May 2012, the opening date was further put back to late 2013. In July 2012 it was reported that Skyvue was scheduled to open on New Years Eve,2013, and that its support columns, a March 2013 update indicated the spindle and yoke were being assembled off site and would be installed shortly. In July 2013 the developer stated “We anticipate construction to resume in the couple of months. ”Projected opening has been delayed until mid-2015. In January 2014, all scaffolding was removed from the columns, on March 5,2012, Shotgun Creek Investments, headed by Wayne Perry, announced their involvement in the $300 million project. By August 2012 they had invested tens of millions and may put in more, in early 2013 Shotgun Creek Investments made two loans totaling $9 million in the project. Voyager, a giant Ferris wheel proposed several times for Las Vegas, but never built

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Skyvue under construction, early August 2012
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RTC Transit
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RTC Transit is the name of the bus system in the Las Vegas metropolitan area of Clark County, Nevada. It is a subsidiary of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, the privately owned Las Vegas Transit System, Inc. provided bus service on the streets of Las Vegas for more than 40 years. LVT service mainly consisted of loop routes that made many turns throughout the city, sometimes doubling back on its own routes, at one point, LVT was named Americas worst transit system. Citizens Area Transit was formed by the RTC to provide bus service to the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Las Vegas Township, Mesquite. The system began on December 5,1992 under the direction of Kurt Weinrich, the fleet consisted of mostly old vehicles such as Flxible Grummans, GMC RTSs, TMC RTSs and Gillig Phantoms. They had also purchased 90 new New Flyer D40HFs, soon after starting operations, CAT began to catch on with the city and blossomed. In 1997, the American Public Transportation Association awarded CAT with their highest honor, however, things began to change in the following years. Several drivers walked off the job and onto the picket lines, Coach operators from sister agencies were called in to drive the buses and serve the city before a settlement was reached. In 2004, CAT received its first shipment of 10 BRT vehicles from Irisbus and these buses were placed on the new MAX Line that serves North Las Vegas Boulevard. A year later, CAT received its first shipment of 50 double decker buses from Alexander Dennis, as new vehicles arrived, the RTC started a vehicle replacement program and began to retire its older CAT fleet. In March 2007, CAT received its first shipment of 30 Diesel-Electric Hybrid vehicles from New Flyer. Later that year, an additional 40 double deck vehicles from Alexander Dennis arrived, the first line was called the Gold Line, which serviced the downtown and strip corridors. In late 2007, the RTC began to rebrand the Citizens Area Transit system as RTC Transit, the New Flyer 900 series coaches were the last to be purchased with the CAT logo, and the first to be purchased with the RTC logo. The CAT bus stop signs around the city were replaced by Transit Stop signs using the RTC logo, All rider alerts, bus announcements, bus books, and new NABI Hybrid, NABI Diesel and New Flyer CNG buses no longer use the CAT logo. The RTC received 50 NABI vehicles and the shipment of 4042 ft Deuce double-deck buses in the summer of 2008. The RTC also began to receive 45 New Flyer CNG vehicles in the fall of 2008. The rebranding was completed on January 1,2009 when RTC vehicles started featuring RTC TRANSIT along with the normal route destination headers, All remaining CAT buses are in the process of retirement or being refurbished to the new RTC gold/blue livery. In 2007, nine RTC executives received pay raises which averaged 22%, the raises were based on the findings of a consultant, Peter Ronza, who was once employed by Clark County

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A typical CAT bus with the original teal and magenta livery used from 1992 to 2001
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A 2007 Deuce bus making its first-run debut at the South Strip Transfer Terminal.

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The Deuce
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The Deuce is a transit bus service serving the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Operated by RTC Transit, it began service on October 27,2005, in March 2010 a new bus rapid transit line connecting the Strip to downtown Las Vegas and Town Square and the South Strip Transfer Terminal became operational. This new 11 mile service was called ACE Gold Line and is similar to the Metropolitan Area Express BRT Line which has been operating since June 30,2004, due to a lawsuit by Ace Cab, the line was rebranded as the Gold Line. On November 7,2010, it was rebranded to be known as the Strip and Downtown Express. Previously, RTC planned to shorten The Deuce on the Strip from the current 9.3 miles to just the 5 miles of the Strip from Mandalay Bay Casino to Palace Station on Sahara Avenue. This would have been the first time in 45 years that the main Strip corridor route had undergone a major route change, however, the first week of the service change, the northern portion of the route was reinstated with buses continuing to serve the Downtown Transportation Center. As of 2014, the fare for the Las Vegas Strip is $6 for a pass, $8 for a 24-hour pass. The route operates using Alexander Dennis Enviro500 vehicles built by the British manufacturer Alexander Dennis and they each seat 27 people on the lower deck,53 on the upper deck, and are 40 feet long. All of the five agencies reside on the west coast, in 2006, the RTC announced that they purchased 40 more double-deckers that arrived in Spring 2007, and another 40 that arrived in 2008. These new vehicles replaced the original 50 that have been serving the Strip, the original vehicles were reassigned to local routes. These new Deuces are special in that they have 2 staircases, one in the current position, and they are also 2 feet longer than the present double deckers, and have earned the nickname Superdeuce. Since January 2008,80 new double deckers have arrived with half of that order featuring the reconfigured 42 ft, the double staircase buses are assigned mostly to The Strip, while some, as well as all of the 40 ft double deckers are assigned to local routes. Although rare, some of the 40 ft vehicles will find their way onto The Strip route as a last resort. List of RTC Transit routes RTC webpage for Las Vegas tourists from one can get fare info

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A 2007 Deuce bus making its first-run debut at the South Strip Transfer Terminal.
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A Deuce bus on the Nellis route 115 loading a wheelchair
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Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Mandalay Bay is a 43-story luxury resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, One of the propertys towers operates as the Delano, also the Four Seasons Hotel is independently operated within the Mandalay Bay tower, occupying 5 floors. Mandalay Bay has 3,309 hotel rooms,24 elevators, adjacent to the hotel are the 2,000,000 square feet Mandalay Bay Convention Center and the 12, 000-seat Mandalay Bay Events Center. The Mandalay Bay Tram connects the resort to its properties, Excalibur and Luxor. Circus Circus Enterprises bought the Hacienda for $80 million in 1995 and they closed it on December 1,1996, and imploded it on New Years Eve,1996. The Mandalay Bay project was introduced on December 31,1996, as Hawaiian-themed, in February 1998, the project was renamed Mandalay Bay, despite the fact there is no actual bay in the inland city of Mandalay in Myanmar. During construction engineers discovered vertical movements and particularly differential movements between the core and the wings. The tower core was sinking at a rate of 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 inch per week, if these movements were not stopped, severe structural damage would occur and the building would have been at risk of eventual collapse. Construction was halted while a solution was developed and implemented, since then, there have not been any reports of this problem recurring. In June 1999, Circus Circus changed its name to Mandalay Resort Group, the convention center was added in January 2003. When it opened, it was ranked as the fifth largest in the United States and it also offered the largest unobstructed ballroom in the country, at 100,000 square feet. On May 23,2002, the Mandalay Resort Group announced a second 1, 122-room hotel tower, construction began on the tower in September 2002. The name of the tower, THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, was chosen in September 2003, the tower opened on December 17,2003. In February 2005, Mandalay Resort Group was sold to MGM Mirage, the acquisition was finalized on April 25,2005. The gold coloring of the hotel is a result of gold used on the windows. The top 3 floors are penthouses, with a lounge on level 62 for guests staying in the penthouses. The resorts second tower, with 45 stories and 1,117 suites, previously operated as THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, each suite is at least 750 square feet. Five floors of the hotel building are occupied by the five-star

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Aria Resort and Casino
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Aria Resort and Casino is a luxury resort and casino, part of the CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Aria consists of two curved glass and steel highrise towers adjoined at the center and it opened on December 16,2009 as a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Infinity World Development. At 4,000,000 sq ft and 600 ft in height, among the most notable aspects of Aria is its incorporation of technology in the exterior and interior design of the hotel, specifically for the reduction of energy consumption. It is the largest hotel in the world to have earned LEED Gold certification, Aria was conceived by MGM Mirage as part of the broader CityCenter development project, which was announced on November 10,2004. The architectural design of Aria was conducted by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and this site was previously occupied by the former Boardwalk Hotel and Casino, retail stores, and a large parking lot, all of which were excavated beginning in April 2006. Following excavation, Arias foundation was poured in June 2006, vertical progression commenced in September 2007, at which point construction workers built upwards at a rate of one floor every seven days until reaching the final height of 61 floors. Amid ongoing construction in 2007, Infinity World Development, a subsidiary of Dubai World, from this point on, Aria was jointly owned by MGM Resorts International and Infinity World Development, with MGM solely responsible for operations and management. The resort opened on December 16,2009, in the month as several other CityCenter properties such as The Crystals. The completed structure comprises two glass towers, measuring 61 stories tall. At the base of the connected high-rise towers is a casino and a lobby that incorporates natural materials including foliage, flowers, glass, wood. Arias design is described as not adhering to an overarching theme and it was named Aria due to its placement as the central feature of CityCenter, as arias are focal points in operas. Artwork is incorporated throughout the lobby and interior of the building, the main entrance contains a lighted water feature called Lumia which syncs water bursts to music. A result of its design, Aria is the largest hotel in the world to have received LEED Gold certification, Aria contains 4,004 hotel rooms within its 4,000,000 sq ft. The suites make up 568 of the rooms, and a portion are referred to as Sky Suites, at the time of its opening in 2009, Aria was the 9th-largest hotel in the world as measured by the total number of rooms. All rooms have an automation system which automatically adjusts curtains, turns off unused lights and electronics. Room dimensions begin at 520 sq ft, the standard suites range in size from 1,050 to 2,060 sq ft. The two top floors of the hotel consist of a designated room category entitled Sky Villas. A three-story,300,000 sq ft convention center includes four ballrooms,38 meeting rooms, as of 2009, the window was the largest glass-curtain wall of its type ever constructed in a public building

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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Treasure Island is traditionally considered a story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels and it was first published as a book on 14 November 1883, by Cassell & Co. A seaman with intact legs shows up, frightening Billy—who drinks far too much rum—into a stroke, and Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet the contents of his sea chest. After a visit from yet another man, Billy has another stroke and dies, Jim and his mother unlock the sea chest, finding some money, a journal, and a map. The local physician, Dr. Livesey, deduces that the map is of an island where a deceased pirate—Captain Flint—buried a vast treasure, the district squire, Trelawney, proposes buying a ship and going after the treasure, taking Livesey as ships doctor and Jim as cabin boy. PART II—THE SEA COOK Several weeks later, Trelawney sends for Jim and Livesey and introduces them to Long John Silver, a one-legged Bristol tavern-keeper whom he has hired as ships cook. They also meet Captain Smollett, who tells them that he dislikes most of the crew on the voyage, after taking a few precautions, however, they set sail on Trelawnys schooner, the Hispaniola, for the distant island. During the voyage, the first mate, a drunkard, disappears overboard, and just before the island is sighted, Jim—concealed in an apple barrel—overhears Silver talking with two other crewmen. They are all former gentlemen ofortune in Flints crew and have planned a mutiny, the men still on the ship, led by the coxswain Israel Hands, run up the pirate flag. The next morning, Silver appears under a flag of truce, offering terms that the captain refuses, at Smolletts refusal to surrender the map, Silver threatens an attack, and, within a short while, the attack on the stockade is launched. PART V—MY SEA ADVENTURE After a battle, the surviving mutineers retreat, having lost six men, when Livesey leaves in search of Gunn, Jim runs away without permission and finds Gunns homemade coracle. After dark, he goes out and cuts the ship adrift, the two pirates on board, Hands and OBrien, interrupt their drunken quarrel to run on deck, but the ship—with Jims boat in her wake—is swept out to sea on the ebb tide. Exhausted, Jim falls asleep in the boat and wakens the next morning, bobbing along on the west coast of the island, eventually, he encounters the ship, which seems deserted, but getting on board, he finds OBrien dead and Hands badly wounded. He and Hands agree that they will beach the ship at an inlet on the northern coast of the island, as the ship is finally beached, Hands attempts to kill Jim but is himself killed in the attempt. Then, after securing the ship as well as he can, Jim goes back ashore, once there, in utter darkness, he enters the blockhouse—to be greeted by Silver and the remaining five mutineers, who have somehow taken over the stockade in his absence. PART VI—CAPTAIN SILVER Silver and the others argue about whether to kill Jim and he tells Jim that, when everyone found the ship was gone, the captains party agreed to a treaty whereby they gave up the stockade and the map. In the morning, the doctor arrives to treat the wounded and sick pirates, after he leaves, Silver and the others set out with the map, taking Jim along as hostage

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Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
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The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is a luxury resort casino and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Both buildings are 184 meters tall, in 2013, the hotel was rated The Best Hotel in the World by Gogobot. In 2015, the resort was named to the Condé Nast Traveller Gold List as one of the Top Hotels in the World, the Cosmopolitans 100,000 sq ft casino features views of the Las Vegas Strip. The Pools at the Cosmopolitan features three different types, a pool, day club pool and nightclub pool. The Cosmopolitan is also home to the Marquee Nightclub & Dayclub, in January 2014, the Cosmopolitan added a new nightclub concept, Rose. Plans for the property were first announced in April 2004, the developer,3700 Associates, was a joint venture formed by David Friedman, Ian Bruce Eichner, and Soros Fund Management. The developers purchased the site, an 8. 5-acre U-shaped parcel surrounding the Jockey Club timeshare building, further details about the project, including the Cosmopolitan name, were released in November 2004. The Cosmopolitans design team was led by Friedmutter Group as executive architect, the building was engineered by DeSimone Consulting Engineers. The interior design team included Digital Kitchen, Prophet, the Friedmutter Group, The Rockwell Group, Jeffrey Beers, Adam Tihany, the resort was built on what used to be the parking lot for the Jockey Club. Because the Cosmopolitan occupies much of the lot, it was agreed that the Club residents could use part of the Cosmopolitans parking garage. The Cosmopolitan was the second Las Vegas hotel, after The Palazzo, as a result, the parking garage was built first. In December 2007, work finished on the 70-foot hole for the parking structure, the hotel was originally planned to open and be operated by Hyatt as the Grand Hyatt Las Vegas. Original plans called for the casino to be on the floor, but this was later changed. Planned condo units were cancelled and replaced with studios and other hotel rooms, in January 2008, it was reported that the $3. Construction moved forward as the developers searched for new financing, in late February 2008, Global Hyatt Corporation and New York-based Marathon Asset Management agreed to recapitalize the condominium-hotel project. However, one month later the developer said Deutsche Bank AG would begin foreclosure proceedings, related recommended many revisions, including bringing the casino entrance onto the strip. In June 2008, Hearst Corp filed a suit against the owners of the casino. Hearst owns the trademark to Cosmopolitan magazine, in March 2010, the suit was settled, and the resort was renamed Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

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The July 2015 fire at the Cosmopolitan, seen from the rooftop terrace of Marriott's Grand Chateau. The picture was taken twenty minutes after the fire was reported.
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Night view from the east side.
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Cosmopolitan construction as seen from Caesars Palace

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Steve Wynn
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Stephen Alan Steve Wynn is an American real estate businessman and art collector. He is known for his involvement in the American luxury casino, in 2000, Wynn sold his company Mirage Resorts to MGM Grand Inc. resulting in the formation of MGM Mirage. Wynn afterwards took his company Wynn Resorts public in a public offering. Current projects include Wynn Palace in Macau and Wynn Everett near Boston, in 2006 Wynn was inducted into the American Gaming Association Hall of Fame. As of September 2015, Wynns net worth was estimated by Forbes at $2.4 billion, Steve Wynn is an avid collector of fine art, often exhibiting pieces by artists such as Picasso and Claude Monet in Wynn Resorts hotels. Steve Wynn was born Stephen Alan Weinberg in New Haven, Connecticut on January 27,1942, Wynn was raised in Utica, New York, and graduated from The Manlius School, a private boys school east of Syracuse, New York, in 1959. Steve Wynn received his Bachelor of Arts in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, shortly before graduating his father died of heart problems, leaving $350,000 in gambling debts. Wynn relinquished a position at Yale Law School to take charge of his familys business in Waysons Corner, Maryland, within a year he had expanded the company. Wynn and his family moved in 1967 to Las Vegas where his success with his familys business allowed him to purchase a small stake in the Frontier Hotel. That year he met E. Parry Thomas, dubbed by Vanity Fair as the most influential banker in Las Vegas. Thomas was the president of the Bank of Las Vegas, which was the bank at the time that would extend loans to Las Vegas casinos. Starting in 1968 Wynn also spent four years operating a wine and his company stake increased so that, in 1973, he became the majority shareholder, and the youngest casino owner in Las Vegas. In 1977 he opened the Golden Nuggets first hotel tower, followed by several others, frank Sinatra was a periodic headliner at the Golden Nugget, and Wynn has since maintained a relationship with the Sinatra family, even naming a restaurant at Encore “Sinatra”. In 1980, Wynn began construction on the Golden Nugget Atlantic City in Atlantic City and it was Atlantic Citys first casino built from scratch, first and only locals casino, and the citys sixth casino after the city legalized gambling in 1976. Joel Bergman, who designed Wynns other resorts, designed the Golden Nugget, though at its opening it was the second smallest casino in the city, by 1983 it was the citys top earning casino. The Atlantic City Golden Nugget was sold by Wynn in 1987 for $440 million, in 1989, the company acquired the Nevada Club casino in Laughlin, Nevada, and re-branded it as the Golden Nugget Laughlin. Wynns first major casino on the Las Vegas Strip was The Mirage and it was the first time Wynn was involved with the design and construction of a casino, and he financed the $630 million project largely with high-yield bonds issued by Michael Milken. The resorts high cost and emphasis on luxury meant that it was considered high risk at the time, the hotel, with its erupting volcano and South Seas theme, ignited a $12 billion building boom on the Strip

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Steve Wynn Portrait
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Wynn's first major Strip casino was The Mirage, which was the first time Wynn was personally involved with the design and construction of a casino.
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Wynn's company Mirage Resorts oversaw the construction of the Bellagio, which at the time was the most expensive hotel in the world. Like Wynn's previous resorts, the Bellagio features an extensive water show on the Strip.
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The Encore Hotel in Las Vegas, showing the shops inside the buildings.

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Mirage Resorts
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Mirage Resorts, previously Golden Nugget Companies, was an American company that owned and operated hotel-casinos. It was acquired by MGM Grand Inc. in 2000, forming MGM Mirage, Golden Nugget Companies Inc. was formed by Steve Wynn in 1973. The company was created after Wynn acquired majority control of the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, the property was sold to Ballys Entertainment, and eventually became Ballys Grand Hotel and Casino. In 1989, the acquired the Nevada Club casino in Laughlin, Nevada. Wynns first major casino on the Las Vegas Strip was The Mirage and it was the first time Wynn was involved with the design and construction of a casino, and he financed the $630 million project largely with high-yield bonds issued by Michael Milken. The resorts high cost and emphasis on luxury meant that it was considered high risk at the time, the hotel, with its erupting volcano and South Seas theme, ignited a $12 billion building boom on the Strip. Known for its entertainment, the became the main venue for the Siegfried & Roy show in 1990. Afterwards Wynn decided to invite Cirque to create Mystère for the soon-to-be-built Treasure Island resort next door, following the completion of The Mirage in 1989 the name of the company was changed to Mirage Resorts, Inc. Much of the financing for the Mirage was obtained in cooperation with Mike Milken, after Mirage, Wynns next project Treasure Island Hotel and Casino opened in the Mirages old parking lot in 1993, and overall cost $450 million. Intended to be family-friendly, pools in front of the casino enacted the Battle of Buccaneer Bay with two full-sized pirate ships, while the inside featured romantic tropical theming, the resort sits on 44 acres, occupied by the Dunes Hotel golf course until its demolition in October 1993. In 1995, the company proposed to build the Le Jardin hotel-casino in the area if the state of New Jersey built a road that connected to the hotel-casino. The company had agreed to allow Circus Circus Enterprises and Boyd Gaming to build casinos on the site. Boardwalk Hotel and Casino was later acquired by Mirage Resorts in 1997, in October 1998, Wynn opened the even more opulent Bellagio, a $1.6 billion resort considered among the world’s most spectacular hotels. The architect was Jon Jerde of The Jerde Partnerships, and construction was handled by Mirage Resorts, when built, the Bellagio was the most expensive hotel in the world. In front of the hotel are the Fountains of Bellagio—shooting fountains choreographed to music that “dance” on the hotel’s 8.5 acre man-made lake—which are now considered Las Vegas landmarks, the Bellagio is credited with starting a new spree of luxurious developments in Las Vegas. Among these developments include The Venetian, Mandalay Bay, and Paris Las Vegas, Wynn brought Mirage Resorts’ style to Biloxi, Mississippi in 1999, where he oversaw development of the 1, 835-room Beau Rivage. Themed to blend Mediterranean beauty with Southern hospitality, the resort was part of a boom that established Biloxi as a regional tourism center along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Beau Rivage was originally the name Wynn wanted to give the Bellagio, Beau Rivage opened as the largest hotel-casino to be built outside Nevada

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Big Shot (ride)
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Big Shot is a pneumatically powered tower ride. It was at one time the worlds highest amusement ride in terms of elevation above ground level. The 160 feet tower is atop the 921 feet high deck of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. The worlds highest amusement ride in terms of elevation above ground level is currently the Sky Drop built atop the 1,492 feet high deck of the Canton Tower in Guangzhou. The new Sky Drop reaches a height of 1,591 feet above level,510 feet higher than Big Shot. Big Shot is a pneumatically powered tower ride, featuring a rapid ascent from an elevation of 921 ft to 1,081 ft, the ride accelerates to 45 miles per hour. The ride up generates 4Gs during the rapid ascent, high Roller SkyJump Las Vegas X-Scream

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The Big Shot lit up during the evening

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Barneys New York
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Barneys New York is an American chain of luxury department stores founded and headquartered in New York, New York. The chain operates 26 flagship, boutique, and outlet stores in the United States, in addition, eleven stores in Japan are licensed and operated by a third party. Barneys Clothes was stocked with 40 brand name suits and a big sign with a slogan, No Bunk, No Junk, Barneys sold clothing at discounted prices by purchasing showroom samples, retail overstocks, and manufacturers closeouts at auctions and bankruptcy sales. It also offered free alterations and free parking to attract customers and he sponsored radio programs featuring Irish tenors and bands playing jigs to advertise Irish woolens. Women encased in barrels gave away matchbooks with the store name and he also chartered a boat to take 2,000 of his customers from Manhattan to Coney Island. In a 1973 interview with Business Week, Fred Pressman, Barney Pressmans son and my father and I have always hated cheap goods. I didnt want to sell low-end merchandise, now, many of those who chose to are verging on bankruptcy. Pressman is quoted saying, The best value you can offer a customer is personal attention to every detail, ultimately, the customer cares the most about how he or she is treated. In 1970, Barneys built a story onto their original building. The original store was renamed America House and the addition was named International House, the expanded store occupied the entire Seventh Avenue block, with 100,000 square feet of selling space and 20 individual shops. International House, Fred Pressman promised, would feature complete collections of European designers, from denim pants to $250 suits, not just a watered-down potpourri of fabrics, the renovated America House, he said, would hold merchandise from manufacturers who are in effect designers. By 1973, the store was stocking 60,000 suits and it carried the full lines of designers such as Bill Blass, Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, and Hubert de Givenchy. It became the first clothing store in the U. S. to stock the full line of Giorgio Armani, Barneys is widely credited to have introduced Giorgio Armani to the American public. Womens clothing was introduced in 1976 on the floor of the International House. The next year, the store relocated to The Penthouse. Barneys also added housewares, cosmetics, and gift departments to the store, also in 1977, Barneys in-store restaurant was renamed The Cafe and began selling salads, soup and sandwiches. The apostrophe in Barneys was dropped in 1981, in 1981, the womens penthouse became a duplex. Barneys imported 80% of the womens and 40% of the mens merchandise, the $25 million,70, 000-square-foot womens store finally opened in 1986 in a row of six townhouses and two larger adjacent buildings across the store along 17th Street

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60th St flagship store
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Barneys New York in Kobe

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Grand Canal Shoppes
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The Grand Canal Shoppes is a 500,000 sq ft upscale shopping mall inside The Venetian Hotel & Casino and The Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The mall was opened along with the Venetian in 1999, the mall has indoor canals, where gondolas take people around the mall. The mall is anchored by a flagship, high-fashion Barneys New York store and contains many designer, live performances can be found throughout the mall. As of 2008, the mall had 20 million visitors a year, general Growth Properties acquired the 400,000 sq ft mall from Las Vegas Sands in 2004 for $776 million. Grand Canal Shoppes opened in 1999, the place was a Venetian-styled shopping mall with 91 shops for retail, dining, and entertainment. Retail includes Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Sephora, and more, in 2005, plans were made for an expansion to add 50 more shops for retail, dining, and more theater space. Plans were approved and built in 2007, the mall was originally named The Grand Canal Shoppes, but later was renamed The Shoppes at the Palazzo to give credit for the hotel which the mall is in. Now the mall has over 140 shops and eateries, GGP will continue to manage and lease the center which has sales of $1,000 per square foot. Barneys New York A replica of the Grand Canal Shoppes is built at The Venetian Macao in Macau SAR, China

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Showcase Mall
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Showcase Mall is a shopping center on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is known for its facade, featuring a 100-foot tall Coca-Cola bottle. After the 1989 announcement of plans for the MGM Grand casino and hotel, Unger approached his friend, banker Barry Fieldman, for financing, and the two partnered to form Makena Development Corp. in 1992. Makena purchased Island Plaza, a shopping center on the site that would become the southern part of Showcase Mall. They then beat out MGM in an effort to two gas stations to the north of Island Plaza. The first business at the mall, the Official All Star Cafe, an eight-screen United Artists Theater opened in March 1997. Island Plaza was demolished in 1999 to make way for the phase of Showcase Mall, with 43,000 square feet of retail space. The second phase, south of the building, opened in 2000. North of the portion of the mall, a parcel occupied by a Dennys restaurant was earmarked for a third phase of construction. In 2003, Westgate Resorts announced a plan to build a 54-story tower with over 700 timeshare units on the Dennys site. In 2005, the sold the first phase of the mall for $142 million, to a partnership of San Francisco-based City Center Retail. The buyers also spent $30 million to acquire a leasehold interest in the Dennys site, the malls third phase opened in 2009 with 97,400 square feet of space, anchored by a Hard Rock Cafe and a Ross Dress For Less store. The City Center / Angelo Gordon partnership sold this portion of the mall in 2011 to Unilev Capital Corp. a California real estate investment company, for $93.5 million. In July 2014, City Center and Angelo Gordon sold the center section of the mall for $145 million to a partnership between the Nakash family and investor Eli Gindi. The Nakashes and Gindi, along with home-curtains manufacturer Elyahu Cohen, then purchased the third, the Nakashes and Gindi consolidated their control of the mall in December 2015, buying the southern portion from Fieldman for $82.9 million. Adidas Performance Center — A three-story store selling sports apparel, Grand Canyon Experience — A two-story gift shop built to resemble the Grand Canyon. Opened in 2000 as part of the second phase. Food court — Opened in 2003 with nine fast-food outlets, Hard Rock Cafe — A three-story facility including a restaurant, live music venue, and gift shop

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Coca-Cola
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Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company. The drinks name refers to two of its ingredients, which were kola nuts and coca leaves. The current formula of Coca-Cola remains a secret, although a variety of reported recipes. The Coca-Cola Company produces concentrate, which is sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold exclusive territory contracts with the company, produce the product in cans and bottles from the concentrate, in combination with filtered water. A typical 12-US-fluid-ounce can contains 38 grams of sugar, the bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail stores, restaurants and vending machines throughout the world. The Coca-Cola Company also sells concentrate for soda fountains of major restaurants, the Coca-Cola Company has on occasion introduced other cola drinks under the Coke name. Based on Interbrands best global brand study of 2015, Coca-Cola was the third most valuable brand. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries worldwide, confederate Colonel John Pemberton, who was wounded in the American Civil War and became addicted to morphine, began a quest to find a substitute for the problematic drug. The prototype Coca-Cola recipe was formulated at Pembertons Eagle Drug and Chemical House and he may have been inspired by the formidable success of Vin Mariani, a French coca wine. It is also worth noting that a Spanish drink called Kola Coca was presented at a contest in Philadelphia in 1885, the patent for this Spanish drink was bought by Coca-Cola in 1953. In 1885, Pemberton registered his French Wine Coca nerve tonic, in 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, a nonalcoholic version of French Wine Coca. The first sales were at Jacobs Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, indigestion, nerve disorders, headaches, and impotence. Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the year in the Atlanta Journal. By 1888, three versions of Coca-Cola – sold by three separate businesses – were on the market, a co-partnership had been formed on January 14,1888 between Pemberton and four Atlanta businessmen, J. C. Mayfield, A. O. Not codified by any signed document, a statement given by Asa Candler years later asserted under testimony that he had acquired a stake in Pembertons company as early as 1887. John Pemberton declared that the name Coca-Cola belonged to his son, Charley, Charleys exclusive control over the Coca Cola name became a continual thorn in Asa Candlers side. Candlers oldest son, Charles Howard Candler, authored a book in 1950 published by Emory University, in this definitive biography about his father, Candler specifically states

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a Coca-Cola bottle
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John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola
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Eagle Drug and Chemical House, Columbus, Georgia
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Believed to be the first coupon ever, this ticket for a free glass of Coca-Cola was first distributed in 1888 to help promote the drink. By 1913, the company had redeemed 8.5 million tickets.

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Nevada National Guard
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The Nevada National Guard, based in Nevada consists of the Nevada Army National Guard, including distinguished units such as C Co. 1-168th GSAB Medevac Wolf Pack and B Co, 1-189th Aviation Mustangs and the Nevada Air National Guard, including the 152nd Airlift Wing High Rollers. The Nevada Office of the Military provides military organization for the Nevada National Guard and it is the organized military force of the state, except when ordered into federal service. Under the National Defense Act of 1947, the Army and Air National Guard are reserve components of the United States Army, the governor is the commander-in-chief of the Nevada National Guard and appoints the adjutant general. The current adjutant general is Brigadier General William R. Burks, the Nevada National Guard is one of the 54 members of the United States National Guard, part of the United States reserve forces. At the conclusion of fiscal year 2006, Brig. Gen. Francis “Frank” Gonzales was the assistant adjutant general for the Nevada Army Guard. On Sept.30,2006, the Nevada National Guard had 2,474 soldiers and 1,125 airmen totaling 3,599 members. That figure shows an increase of 533 members since Sept.30,2004, the 17 percent increase in personnel during the past two years reflects Nevada as one of the fastest-growing of the Guard states and territories. In terms of total National Guard members, Nevada now ranks 45th among the states and territories, States with comparable numbers of personnel include, Montana, Alaska and Vermont. Nevada Guard staff reports at the conclusion of the fiscal year revealed that the Nevada Army Guard stood at 108 percent of its authorized manning. At the conclusion of fiscal year 2006, about 250 Nevada soldiers, the majority of these were soldiers in the 593rd Transportation Company and 1-221st Cavalry. The soldiers currently deployed with 1-221st Cavalry are all volunteers who are assisting the Wisconsin Army Guard’s 121st Field Artillery Battalion on security mission in Iraq, traditional guardsmen in the Nevada National Guard train one weekend per month and 15 days a year in their respective military career fields. Nevada’s traditional guardsmen are supported by 474 full-time federal technicians, state employees and 314 Active Guard and Reserve personnel stationed at various locations around the state

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Cirque du Soleil
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Cirque du Soleil is a Canadian entertainment company. It is the largest theatrical producer in the world, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. Initially named Les Échassiers, they toured Quebec in 1980 as a performing troupe and their initial financial hardship was relieved in 1983 by a government grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations of Jacques Cartiers voyage to Canada. Le Grand Tour du Cirque du Soleil was a success in 1984 and its theatrical, character-driven approach and the absence of performing animals helped define Cirque du Soleil as the contemporary circus that it remains today. Each show is a synthesis of styles from around the world, with its own central theme. Shows employ continuous live music, with rather than stagehands changing the props. Cirque du Soleil expanded rapidly through the 1990s and 2000s, going from one show to 19 shows in over 271 cities on every continent except Antarctica, the shows employ approximately 4,000 people from over 40 countries and generate an estimated annual revenue exceeding US$810 million. The multiple permanent Las Vegas shows alone play to more than 9,000 people a night, 5% of the citys visitors, in 2000, Laliberté bought out Gauthier, and with 95% ownership, has continued to expand the brand. In 2008, Laliberté split 20% of his share equally between two investment groups Istithmar World and Nakheel of Dubai, in order to finance the companys goals. In partnership with two groups, Cirque du Soleil had planned to build a residency show in the United Arab Emirates in 2012 directed by Guy Caron. Several more shows are in development around the world, along with a deal, womens clothing line. Cirque du Soleil also produces a number of private and corporate events each year. In 2000, Cirque du Soleil was awarded the National Arts Centre Award, in 2002, Cirque du Soleil was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame. In 2015, TPG Capital, Fosun Industrial Holdings and Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec purchased 90% of Cirque du Soleil, the sale received regulatory approval from the Government of Canada on 30 June 2015. At age 18, interested in pursuing some kind of performing career, Guy Laliberté quit college and he toured Europe as a folk musician and busker. By the time he returned home to Canada in 1979, he had learned the art of fire breathing, although he became employed at a hydroelectric power plant in James Bay, his job ended after only three days due to a labour strike. He decided not to look for job, instead supporting himself on his unemployment insurance. He helped organize a fair in Baie-Saint-Paul with the help of a pair of friends named Daniel Gauthier

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Zumanity
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Zumanity is a resident cabaret-style show by Cirque du Soleil at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The production was unveiled on September 20,2003 and it is the first adult-themed Cirque du Soleil show, billed as the sensual side of Cirque du Soleil or another side of Cirque du Soleil. Created by René Richard Cyr and Dominic Champagne, Zumanity is a departure from the standard Cirque format, intended to be for mature adult audiences only, this show is centered on erotic song, dance, and acrobatics. The inspiration to create Zumanity came from multiple sources, another reason was that the New York-New York Hotel and Casino wanted to make their entertainment appear more trendy. The hotel liked the concept of a more adult Cirque du Soleil performance, Laliberté admits that the biggest reason to produce this show was the chance to create something with riskier subject matter. He was interested in the idea of creating a show that human sexuality, something that was at complete odds with the other. Our previous shows have all been family-oriented and politically correct, which is great, Laliberté said, were a bunch of happy campers. We like to live new experiences, Zumanity deals with some of those experiences. A few of the characters who appear in Zumanity are listed below, many of the costumes are highly colorful, yet some are minimal to an exaggerated extreme. Fur, feathers, leather, lace, fishnet stockings, velvet dresses, tiny corsets, cone bras, jonels costume, for example, is made of stretch vinyl and is airbrushed to create a semi-nude effect, her bright red wig is made of expanded foam. Faun has fur on his pants which is made from toothbrush bristles, human hair, moliniers long velvet dress was created by using a stencil and net onto which black silicone was applied. The album for Zumanity was released on March 22,2005, below is a list of the tracks as found on the CD release

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Michael Jackson: One
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Michael Jackson, One, is the second Michael Jackson-based production in Cirque du Soleils roster, after Michael Jackson, The Immortal World Tour. It was announced to the public and media on February 21,2013, in their continuing partnership with the Jackson estate, One evokes the entertainers artistic style in several manners. The new production began previews on May 23,2013 and the world premiere was June 29,2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Like The Immortal World Tour, this production was also written, sneak peek videos were released on the internet revealing numbers of the production, including 2 Bad, Stranger In Moscow, Bad and Smooth Criminal. However, unlike Immortal, the only uses prerecorded tracks. The shows plot is centered on four misfits who set out on a journey into Michael Jacksons world, by journeys end, they personify Jacksons agility, courage, playfulness and love. These values are represented with his gloves, white socks and black shoes, hat. Each of four main characters receive an object from Jackson, first, Clumsy is given the shoes, and with his newfound balance, performs a double slackline act to Bad. Next, Shy overcomes her name when she receives Jacksons glasses, then, Smarty Pants, the de facto leader of the four, puts on Jacksons hat and is imbued with the artists legendary gracefulness in Smile. Finally, Sneaky, the troublemaker, performs a playful manipulation act with the glove to This Place Hotel

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Wayne Newton
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Carson Wayne Newton is an American singer and entertainer. One of the entertainers in Las Vegas, Nevada, he is known by the nicknames The Midnight Idol, Mr. Las Vegas. His well-known songs include 1972s Daddy, Dont You Walk So Fast, Years and his signature song Danke Schoen was notably used in the score for Ferris Buellers Day Off. He was born Carson Wayne Newton in Norfolk, Virginia, to Patrick Newton, a Jewish auto mechanic and he is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Native American ancestry. Newton has stated that his mother is half Cherokee and his father half Patawomeck. When his father was serving in the U. S. Navy during World War II, Newton spent his years in Roanoke, learning the piano, guitar. While he was still a child, his family moved to near Newark and he began singing in local clubs, theaters, and fairs with his older brother, Jerry. However, Newtons severe asthma forced his family to move to Phoenix in 1952, originally signed for two weeks, the brothers eventually performed for five years, doing six shows a day. On September 29,1962, they first performed on The Jackie Gleason Show and he would perform on Gleasons show 12 times over the following two years. In the early to mid-1960s, Wayne also acted and sang as Andy the baby-faced Ponderosa ranch hand on the classic western TV series, many prominent entertainment icons such as Lucille Ball, Bobby Darin, Danny Thomas, George Burns, and Jack Benny lent Newton their support. In particular, Benny hired Newton as an act for his show. After his job with Benny ended, Newton was offered a job to open for another comic at the Flamingo Hotel, but Newton asked for, and was given, a headline act. In 1972 his recording of Daddy, Dont You Walk So Fast sold over one million copies, the record topped the Canadian charts. From Detroit, Daddy Dont You Walk So Fast took off, from 1980 through 1982, The Beach Boys and The Grass Roots performed Independence Day concerts on the National Mall in Washington, D. C. attracting large crowds. However, in April 1983, James G. Watt, President Ronald Reagans Secretary of the Interior, Watt then announced that Newton, a friend and supporter of President Reagan and a contributor to Republican Party political campaigns, would perform at the Malls 1983 Independence Day celebration. When Newton entered an Independence Day stage on the Mall on July 4,1983, on May 23,1989, Newtons live stage show was broadcast as a Pay-Per-View event called Wayne Newton Live in Concert. In an odd break with tradition, Newton didnt perform his trademark songs Danke Schoen or Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Newton did, however, close the show with a special finale of MacArthur Park, which culminated with an onstage rainfall. On December 12,1992, Newton hit #1 on the Cashbox Pop and Country charts with an Elvis Presley-inspired song, The Letter

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Newton in concert in 2012
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Gen. Tommy Franks, Commander, U.S. Forces Central Command (CENTCOM) sings a duet with Wayne Newton aboard the USS Nimitz during a USO show. At the time, the USS Nimitz was deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. June, 2003.

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Liberace
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Władziu Valentino Liberace, mononymously known as Liberace, was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy and the son of immigrants, Liberace enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Liberace was the entertainer in the world, with established residencies in Las Vegas. Liberace embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage, acquiring the sobriquet Mr. Showmanship, Liberace was born in West Allis, Wisconsin. His father, Salvatore Liberace, was an immigrant from Formia and his mother, Frances Zuchowska, was of Polish descent. Liberace was born with a caul, which in some cultures is considered indicative of genius, good luck and he had a twin, who died at birth. Liberaces father played the French horn in bands and movie theaters, while Sam encouraged music in his family, his wife, Frances, believed music lessons and a record player to be unaffordable luxuries. Liberace later stated, My dads love and respect for music created in him a determination to give as his legacy to the world. Liberace began playing the piano at age four, while Sam took his children to concerts to further expose them to music, he was also a taskmaster demanding high standards from the children in both practice and performance. Liberaces prodigious talent was evident from his early years, by age seven, he was capable of memorizing difficult pieces. He studied the technique of the Polish pianist Ignacy Paderewski, at age eight, he met Paderewski backstage after a concert at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. I was intoxicated by the joy I got from the great virtuosos playing and my dreams were filled with fantasies of following his footsteps…Inspired and fired with ambition, I began to practice with a fervor that made my previous interest in the piano look like neglect. Paderewski later became a family friend, the Depression was financially hard on the Liberace family. Liberace concentrated on his playing with the help of music teacher Florence Kelly. He gained experience playing music in theaters, on local radio, for dancing classes, for clubs. In 1934, he played piano with a school group called The Mixers. Liberace also performed in cabarets and strip clubs, though Sam and Frances did not approve, their son was earning a tidy living during hard times. For a while, Liberace adopted the stage name Walter Busterkeys and he also showed an interest in draftsmanship, design, and painting, and became a fastidious dresser and follower of fashion

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Liberace in 1968
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Liberace's early-1980s Christmas costume, worn at the Las Vegas Hilton and Radio City Music Hall. Designed by Michael Travis, with fur design by Anna Nateece, the costume was one of many at the Liberace Museum.
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Liberace with actress Maureen O'Hara during a court hearing in 1957
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Liberace performing in 1983

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Britney Spears
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Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions, Spearss first and second studio albums. Baby One More Time and Oops. I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks. Baby One More Time and Oops, I Did It Again broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third studio album, Britney. She assumed creative control of her studio album, In the Zone. In 2007, Spearss much-publicized personal issues sent her career into hiatus and her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released later that year, and spawned singles such as Gimme More and Piece of Me. Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the year, at which point she was placed under a still ongoing conservatorship. Spearss sixth studio album, Circus, included the international chart-topping single Womanizer and her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, became her first to yield three top-ten singles in the United States. She released her studio album Britney Jean in 2013. Later that year, Spears began the four-year residency show, Britney, Piece of Me, in 2016, Spears released her ninth studio album, Glory. In 2017, she announced that her show would develop into a world tour, Britney. Spears is regarded as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and she became the best-selling teenage artist of all time and garnered honorific titles including the Princess of Pop. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade, the Recording Industry Association of America lists Spears as the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums. She has sold 100 million albums and over 100 million singles worldwide making her one of the music artists of all time. According to Billboard Spears has sold about 22.38 million singles in digital downloads in US and is the fourth best-selling female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began. Forbes reported that Spears was the highest paid musician of 2012, with earnings of $58 million. Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, the child of Lynne Irene Bridges and James Parnell Spears

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Barry Manilow
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Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician, and producer with a career that has spanned over 50 years. He is best known for a string of hit recordings such as Mandy, Cant Smile Without You. He has recorded and released 47 Top 40 singles, including 12 that hit number one and 27 of which appeared within the top ten, and has released many multi-platinum albums. He is ranked as the top Adult Contemporary chart artist of all time, according to R&R and Billboard magazines, Manilow has been praised by several well-known entertainers, including Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s saying, Hes next. In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, Dont stop what youre doing, as well as producing and arranging albums for other artists, including Bette Midler and Dionne Warwick, Manilow has written songs for musicals, films, and commercials. From February 2005 to December 2009, he was the headliner at the Las Vegas Hilton, since March 2010, he has headlined at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time, Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17,1943, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Edna Manilow and Harold Pincus. His father was born to a Jewish father and an Irish-American Catholic mother, Barry adopted his mothers maiden name, Manilow, at the time of his bar mitzvah. Manilow grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and attended Eastern District High School and that same year, he enrolled in the City College of New York where he briefly studied before entering the New York College of Music. He also worked at CBS while he was a student in order to pay his expenses, according to one source, he married Susan Deixler that year, with the marriage lasting only one year. Another source says Manilow got an annulment from Deixler in 1966 after two years of marriage and he later studied Musical Theater at the Juilliard performing arts school. In 1964, Manilow met Bro Herrod, a CBS director, instead, Manilow wrote an entire original score. Herrod used Manilows composition in the Off Broadway musical, which enjoyed a run at New Yorks 13th Street Theatre. Manilow then earned money by working as a pianist, producer and arranger, during this time, he began to work as a commercial jingle writer, continuing well into the 1970s. Many of the jingles he wrote and/or composed he would perform, including State Farm Insurance. A1965 Polaroid Swinger commercial featuring Manilows Meet The Swinger jingle starred a young Ali MacGraw and his singing-only credits include commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pepsi, Dr Pepper, and the famed McDonalds You Deserve a Break Today campaign. Manilow won two Clio Awards in 1976 for his work for Tab and Band-Aid, by 1967, Manilow was the musical director for the WCBS-TV series Callback, which premiered on January 27,1968. He next conducted and arranged for Ed Sullivans production company, arranging a new theme for The Late Show, while writing, producing, and singing his radio and television jingles

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Manilow performing live in 2008 at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Barry Manilow live in 2008 during a 1960s sketch
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Barry Manilow at the piano, live in 2008

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Bette Midler
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Bette Midler is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist. In 2008, she signed a contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to perform a series of shows titled Bette Midler, The Showgirl Must Go On, Midler made her motion picture debut in 1979 with The Rose, which earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress. In the following years, she starred in a string of hit films, including, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Outrageous Fortune, Beaches, The First Wives Club, and The Stepford Wives. She starred in For the Boys and Gypsy, and won two additional Golden Globe awards for these films, in a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, Midler is currently appearing on Broadway in a revival of Hello, Dolly. which began preview performances on March 15,2017, and will premiere at the Shubert Theatre on April 20th. It is her first leading role in a Broadway musical, Midler was born in Honolulu, where her family was one of the few Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood. Her mother, Ruth, was a seamstress and housewife, and her father, Fred Midler, worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter, and was also a housepainter. She was named after actress Bette Davis, though Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one, /ˈbɛt/ and she was raised in Aiea and attended Radford High School, in Honolulu. She was voted Most Talkative in the 1961 school Hoss Election, Midler majored in drama at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and was a sister of Delta Phi Epsilon international sorority, but left after three semesters. She earned money in the 1966 film Hawaii as an extra, Midler married artist Martin von Haselberg on December 16,1984, about six weeks after their first meeting. Their daughter, Sophie von Haselberg, who is also an actress, was born on November 14,1986, Midler relocated to New York City in the summer of 1965, using money from her work in the film Hawaii. She landed her first professional role in Tom Eyens Off-Off-Broadway plays in 1965, Miss Nefertiti Regrets and Cinderella Revisited, a childrens play by day. From 1966 to 1969, she played the role of Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, after Fiddler, she joined the original cast of Salvation in 1969. She began singing in the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in the Ansonia Hotel, during this time, she became close to her piano accompanist, Barry Manilow, who produced her first album in 1972, The Divine Miss M. It was during her time at the Continental Baths that she built up a core following. In the late 1990s, during the release of her album Bathhouse Betty, Midler commented on her time performing there, Despite the way turned out

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Donny and Marie Osmond
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The Osmonds are devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and their religious values have influenced their careers. The Osmond family was not one single act, but a group of several, the Osmond Brothers began as a barbershop quartet consisting of brothers Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay Osmond. Their only sister Marie, who sang with her brothers at that time, launched a successful career in 1973. A revival of the original Osmond Brothers lineup in the 1980s achieved moderate success in music and continues to perform to the present day, as do Donny. Collectively, the family has sold 102 million records worldwide, the siblings older brothers George Virl Osmond, Jr. and Tom Osmond were born deaf and did not originally perform. They made several appearances in later years, most notably on the family Christmas specials in the 1970s. All of the Osmonds were born in Ogden, Utah except the youngest, Jimmy, the Osmond Brothers career began in 1958 when Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay began singing barbershop music for local audiences in and around Ogden. In their made-for-TV movie Inside the Osmonds, they explain that they performed to earn money to support Virl and Tom in buying hearing aids. Despite their young ages and within a few years, the talent and stage presence were strong enough that their father, George Osmond. Welk was unable to meet them, but on the same trip. Tommy Walker, Disneylands Director of Entertainment and Customer Relations from 1955 to 1966, Walker hired the Osmonds to perform on a segment of Disneyland After Dark. This episode aired on 4/15/62 and 7/01/62, while the Osmond Brothers were performing on a televised Disney special, Andy Williamss father saw them and was so impressed he told his son to book them for his television show. Andy did, and the Osmond Brothers were regulars on the show from 1962 to 1969, Donny soon joined them on the show, making the Osmond Brothers a 5-member group. Marie and Jimmy were also introduced on the show as the years went by, during this time, the Osmonds also toured Europe, performing with Swedens most popular singer, Lars Lönndahl, and even releasing a single where they sang a Swedish version of Two Dirty Little Hands. The Osmond Brothers were regulars on the Jerry Lewis Show in 1969 and they continued to tour, but soon the Osmond Brothers decided they wanted to perform popular music and shed their variety-show image. They wanted to become a rock and roll band, the change was a difficult one for their father, who was suspicious of rock and roll. But he was persuaded and the boys began performing as a pop band, to this end, the Osmonds recorded a single, Flower Music, for UNI records in 1967. They achieved only modest success at first, but they found fame in 1971, record producer Mike Curb saw the Osmonds perform as a band and recognized that they combined a rare mix of polished performing style, instrumental skill, and vocal talent

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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as JLo, is an American singer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, author, and producer. Lopez gained her first high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991 and she received her first leading role in the Selena biopic of the same name in 1997, a portrayal that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. For her role in Out of Sight the following year, Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. She ventured into the industry in 1999 with her debut studio album On the 6. With the simultaneous release of her studio album J. Lo and her film The Wedding Planner in 2001, Lopez became the first woman to have a number one album. Her 2002 remix album, J to tha L–O, the Remixes, became the first in history to debut at number one on the U. S. Billboard 200. Following her second divorce, Lopez had a relationship with Ben Affleck. Then, while also overshadowing the release of Gigli, a critical and commercial failure and she subsequently married longtime friend Marc Anthony, and rebounded with the box office successes Shall We Dance. and Monster-in-Law. Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer, received the highest first-week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States, in 2016, she began starring as Harlee Santos in the crime drama series Shades of Blue. Time listed her as one of the 25 most influential Hispanic Americans, for her contributions to the arts, Lopez has received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Billboard Icon Award, among other honors. Beyond entertainment, she enjoys a successful business career consisting of various clothing lines, accessories, fragrances, a company. Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24,1969, in the Castle Hill neighborhood of The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist. David worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a technician at the firm. When Lopez was born, the family was living in a small apartment, a few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family. At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons and she toured New York with her school when she was seven years old. Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English and they encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home—singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay out of trouble. Lopez spent her academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level and she excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships

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Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1990, Carey rose to fame with the release of Vision of Love from her eponymous debut album, the album produced four chart-topping singles in the US and began what would become a string of commercially successful albums which solidified the singer as Columbias highest selling act. Carey and Boyz II Men spent a record sixteen weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995–1996 with One Sweet Day, following a contentious divorce from Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and traversed towards hip hop with the release of Butterfly. In 1998, she was honored as the worlds best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards, Carey parted with Columbia in 2000, and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records America. In the weeks prior to the release of her film Glitter and its soundtrack in 2001. The project was received and led to a general decline in the singers career. Careys recording contract was out for $50 million by Virgin. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi, Carey once again ventured into film with a well-received supporting role in Precious, and was awarded the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Throughout her career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, according to the RIAA, she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums. With the release of Touch My Body, Carey gained her 18th number-one single in the United States, in 2012, the singer was ranked second on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York, to Patricia and her mother is of Irish descent, while her father had African-American and Afro-Venezuelan ancestry. The surname Carey was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Núñez, Patricia was an occasional opera singer and vocal coach before she met Alfred in 1960. As he began earning a living as an engineer, the couple married later that year. After their elopement, Patricias family disowned her for marrying a black man, Carey later explained that she felt neglected by her maternal family while growing up, which affected her greatly. In the years between the births of Careys older sister Alison and herself, the Carey family struggled within the community due to their ethnicity, Careys name was derived from the song They Call the Wind Maria, originally from the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon. When Carey was three, her parents divorced, after their separation, Alison moved in with her father, while the other two children, Mariah and brother Morgan, remained with their mother. Carey grew apart from her father and would stop seeing him altogether. By age four, she recalled that she had begun to sneak the radio under her covers at night, during elementary school, she excelled in subjects that she enjoyed, such as music, art, and literature, but did not find interest in others

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Olivia Newton-John
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Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE is a British-Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time and she starred in Grease, which featured one of the most successful soundtracks in Hollywood history. Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues, since surviving breast cancer in 1992, she has been an advocate for health awareness becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Her business interests have included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and she is the mother of one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, with her first husband, actor Matt Lattanzi. Her second husband is John Easterling, Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to Irene Helene, the eldest child of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born and Welsh father, Brinley Bryn Newton-John. Her mothers family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime and she is a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmothers father was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Newton-John is the youngest of three children, following brother Hugh, a doctor, and sister Rona, an actress who was married to Grease co-star Jeff Conaway from 1980 until their divorce in 1985. Newton-Johns father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during the Second World War. In 1954, when she was six, Newton-Johns family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and she attended Christ Church Grammar School, and then University High School, adjacent to Ormond College. At fourteen, Newton-John formed a short-lived all-girl group, Sol Four and she became a regular on local Australian radio and television shows including HSV-7s The Happy Show where she performed as Lovely Livvy. She also appeared on the Go Show where she met future partner, Pat Carroll. Newton-John was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won, a trip to Britain, Newton-John recorded her first single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine Forever, in Britain for Decca Records in 1966. While in Britain, Newton-John missed her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Newton-John repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother subsequently cancelled. Newton-Johns outlook changed when Pat Carroll also moved to the UK, the two formed a duo called Pat and Olivia and toured nightclubs in Europe. After Carrolls visa expired forcing her to return to Australia, Newton-John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975 and she became engaged to The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch, but they never married. Newton-John was recruited for the group Toomorrow formed by American producer Don Kirshner, in 1970, the group starred in a science fiction musical film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group

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Regal Entertainment Group
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Regal Entertainment Group, abbreviated REG, is an American movie theater chain headquartered in unincorporated Halls Crossroads, just north of Knoxville, Tennessee. Regal operates the second-largest theater circuit in the United States, with over 7,307 screens in 564 theaters as of June 2016, the three main theatre brands operated by Regal Entertainment Group are Regal Cinemas, Edwards Theatres, and United Artists Theatres. These chains retain their exterior signage, but most indoor branding uses the Regal Entertainment Group name, where applicable, the REG logo is used alongside the three individual brands. Most new cinema construction uses the Regal Cinemas name, although Regal has built new Edwards locations in California, Regal has acquired several smaller chains since this merger, these, however, have been rebranded as Regal Cinemas. Regal Cinemas was established in 1989 in Knoxville, Tennessee, with Mike Campbell as CEO, Regal began to grow at a rapid pace, opening larger cinemas in suburban areas. Many of these contained a premium café and an upscale look than theaters of the time. Regal Cinemas embarked on an aggressive expansion throughout the decade, swallowing up smaller chains as well as building new, by 2001, Regal was overextended like many other cinema chains, and went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It became the namesake for the chain in which it would be merged into with the Edwards. Joseph Schenck was brought in to become UAs president in 1924, as part of the deal, Schenck entered into a partnership with Chaplin and Pickford to buy and construct theatres using UAs name. Over time, the chain became separate from the studio and by the 1970s was part of a larger company, United Artists Theaters was purchased in the late 1940s by the Naify Brothers, who owned theatres in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their company up to time was called Golden State Theatres. About this time they acquired the San Francisco Theatres owned by Samuel H Levin. These theatres were the Balboa, Alexandria, Coliseum, Vogue Metro, the Harding, and Coronet, in 1988 UA bought the Philadelphia-based Sameric chain of about 30 locations in PA, NJ, and DE. The UA Theatres main office was in San Francisco until 1988 when it was sold to TCI, thereafter, it was relocated to Englewood, CO. UAC was an early pioneer in cable television, and aggressively bought smaller regional systems. By the end of the 1980s, John Malones Tele-Communications, Inc. was majority owner, on June 8,1991, then on February 19,1992, TCI sold the theatre chain in a leveraged buyout led by Merrill Lynch Capital Partners Inc and UA management. Edwards Theatres was a chain in California, started in 1930 by William James Edwards Jr. It became one of Californias best-known and most popular theater chains, Edwards Theatres had its headquarters in Newport Beach, California. His son, W. James Edwards III, became president, the expansion plan gave Edwards a crushing debt load, and in 2000 it filed for bankruptcy

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Circus Circus Las Vegas
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Circus Circus Las Vegas is a hotel,123,928 sq ft casino, and RV park located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, Circus Circus features circus acts and carnival type games daily on the Midway. Circus Circus is the largest permanent big top in the world, the Lucky The Clown marquee at the entrance was provided by Young Electric Sign Company and was constructed in 1976. Architects Rissman and Rissman Associates designed a giant circus tent shaped main structure, at its opening, the $15 million facility only included a casino. The lack of a hotel resulted in problems, as the casino was not able to attract high rollers. Sarno obtained a $23 million loan from the Teamsters Pension Fund to construct a hotel, as part of the arrangement, the Chicago Outfits enforcer, Anthony Spilotro was granted a gift shop concession in the hotel. In addition to a government investigation into the connections, Sarno. The casinos financial problems continued and Sarno, along with his partner Stanley Mallin. In 1974, ownership changed with the sale of the casino to William Bennett, the facility was expanded with hotel tower additions in 1972,1980,1985,1986 and 1996. A blog reported that on July 1,2009, Slots-A-Fun would begin the process in order to be incorporated into Circus Circus. The hotels famous midway was featured in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, the ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other casinos. But the place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, the Adventuredome Theme Park and the Canyon Blaster roller coaster were featured in the 1999 movie Baby Geniuses. The theme park was known as Joyworld in the movie, characters in 1977s post-apocalyptic Damnation Alley seek out at the abandoned Circus Circus to play. In Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, Austin and Vanessa sneak into the Circus Circus, in the 1992 movie Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, the oversized child Adam is shown laughing and smiling at the Lucky the Clown pylon. The Midway was featured in the 1978 film Corvette Summer, when Mark Hamill was being lured into a scam by a salesman, in the game Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas, Circus Circus is featured as The Clowns Pocket. In the TV series Vega$, private detective Dan Tanna lived in a warehouse next to Circus Circus

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Turnberry Place
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Turnberry Place Community Association is a luxury residential high-rise complex near the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada, that contains four towers and a private club. The Stirling Club is a 75, 000-square-foot building housing restaurants, bars, beauty services, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, all of the towers are 477 ft tall and have 40 floors. The top floor apartments consist of homes, with a pool, hot tub. The community is considered the largest tax payer in Clark County, at the time of construction, they were tied for the 10th tallest buildings in Las Vegas. As of 2009, they were the 20th tallest building in the area and it is the largest and tallest condominium complex in the state of Nevada. List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas Turnberry Towers Emporis

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The Turnberry Place development as of 2010

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Westin Las Vegas
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The Westin Las Vegas is a resort and casino near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The Westin is managed by Pyramid Hotel Group, under franchise from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and it is noteworthy for being one of the first Las Vegas resorts to prohibit smoking in almost all parts of the property, only in a part of the casino is smoking permitted. The casino floor has fewer than 300 slot and video machines and only ten table games, far smaller than Strip megaresorts. Instead, the resort concentrates more on its hotel amenities, including a destination spa, the property was originally opened on July 1,1977 as the Maxim Hotel and Casino. Though smaller than typical Vegas resorts even before todays megaresort era and it thrived during the 1980s, but went into decline as flashier, larger resorts opened on the nearby Strip. The Maxim was the site of the death of rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996. Shakur was a passenger in a BMW that was driving in front of the casino and he died a week later from his injuries. In 1999, the casino was closed in a dispute between the operator and hotel owners. The hotel itself remained open without gaming, until closing entirely in 2001, Columbia Sussex bought the former Maxim for $38 million then spent an additional $90 million on the remodel. They reopened the hotel as The Westin Casuarina on November 6,2003, the Westin Casuarina marked the first Westin resort nationwide to feature a casino and was the first Westin in Nevada. In November 2010, lenders filed for foreclosure on The Westin Casuarina, the hotels general manager said in October 2011 that Columbia Sussex would not fight the foreclosure, and that the hotel was overleveraged due to property values declining in the recession. Lenders asked a court to appoint Pyramid Hotel Group as receiver to operate the resort, Pyramid leased the propertys casino to 777 Gaming, a company that had operated several rural casinos and a slot route, for four years beginning in May 2012. The hotel was later renamed The Westin Las Vegas and it announced in 2016 that it will phase out its casino facilities and operate purely as a hotel. Westin Las Vegas Hotel, Casino & Spa

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Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas
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Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas is a triple five-star hotel located within CityCenter and is operated by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. Its hotel rooms are decorated in an Eastern style, the hotel’s lobby is located on the 23rd floor. The Residences at Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas has approximately 225 condominium residences located on the upper floors. Parking for this area is valet only, the Residences at Mandarin Oriental were released for purchase in February 2007. The hotel holds the AAA Five Diamond Award and three Forbes Five Star Awards, one for every category. The hotel was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox architects, with mixed Residential interiors that have designed by firms of Kay Lang & Associates. The hotel received a LEED Gold certification on November 20,2009, the Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas opened on December 5,2009. In December 2009, the French restaurant Twist opened in the Mandarin Oriental, Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas is a 47-story hotel located in CityCenter, on the Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Mandarin Oriental contains 392 rooms,5 bar and restaurant establishments, and The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, the interior of the hotel was designed by Adam D. Tihany. The hotel has over 12,000 sq ft of space including a ballroom, a pre-function room. Additionally, the hotels has a pool consisting of two lap pools, two Jacuzzis, a plunge pool, and poolside cabanas available for rent. A fitness center and beauty salon are located on premises as well as The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, the Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas is a two-floor spa with 17 treatment rooms and relaxation lounges. List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas

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The Signature at MGM Grand
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The Signature at MGM Grand is a condo-hotel at the MGM Grand Las Vegas resort, in Paradise. It features three identical 38-story towers, each consisting of 576 fully furnished units, most of the condo units were to be privately owned. The owner, minus fees for maintenance, marketing, and upkeep. 545 condo owners brought a lawsuit alleging the Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition by the developers of The Signature Towers at MGM is just a ploy to delay discovery in the case. The first phase of this involved the sales of condo units to individuals. During this phase, the project was referred to as The Residences, The Residences at MGM Grand and/or The Residences, the first tower sold out within 90 days, proving that the concept was well received. The second tower was already 50% sold by the construction began in late 2004. In October 2004, The Residences celebrated its ground-breaking, making it the first high-rise condo-hotel project overlooking the strip to begin construction, other ventures of this type have begun since in Las Vegas, with many of them failing to obtain necessary financing and/or support. On May 12,2006, the first tower opened for occupancy, the successful opening of The Signature at MGM Grand appears to be aided by its connection to the resources and amenities of The MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. Each tower has a pool with a hot tub. Tower 1 has a cocktail lounge, Towers 1 and 3 have a workout room for the guests of all three towers. Starbucks is available at Tower 1, Signature guests have full access to all MGM Grand amenities as well. The Signature is connected to the main MGM Grand Casino via several moving walkways that traverse through two of the 3 towers, Tower 3 is accessible via a hallway between tower 2 and 3. Time to the casino to the furthest tower is about 8 minutes for the average walker. There is no parking on the Signature property, all parking is by valet Each tower has valet parking on the ground level. The Signature at MGM Grand official website

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The Signature at MGM Grand

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Interstate 215 (Nevada)
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The Las Vegas Beltway is the name of the 50. 5-mile beltway route circling three-quarters of the Las Vegas Valley in southern Nevada. The Las Vegas Beltway carries two numerical designations, approximately 11.1 miles of the highway, from its southern terminus at Interstate 515/U. S. Clark County Route 215 composes the remaining 39.2 miles of this highway, with the countys Department of Public Works responsible for all construction. The Las Vegas Beltway currently consists of two different road types, freeway and an interim expressway, the beltway is currently a freeway from the I-515 interchange in Henderson to just north of Cheyenne Avenue in western Las Vegas. The remainder of the beltway is primarily expressway, with several sections currently being upgraded to Interstate freeway standards, the Beltway was planned and constructed by Clark County. This marked the first time in the United States that a county has overseen the construction of an Interstate highway with little to no state or federal funding. The Las Vegas Beltway begins in Henderson, at the I-515/US 93/US95 interchange, from here, the beltway primarily follows the former Lake Mead Drive alignment west to the Pecos Road/Saint Rose Parkway interchange. The highway then curves northwest towards McCarran International Airport before turning west to cross under Las Vegas Boulevard, as the beltway passes under I-15, it changes from Interstate to county highway still maintaining freeway status as it heads nearly due west. Passing Decatur Boulevard, two one-way frontage roads appear on side of the highway. At Durango Drive, the roadway curves northward, the frontage roads end as the highway reaches Tropicana Avenue, but the freeway continues briefly west and then north again to intersect Charleston Boulevard near Red Rock Canyon. As it passes north through the community of Summerlin, it meets the Summerlin Parkway freeway at an upgraded system interchange. The beltway downgrades from freeway to an expressway after it passes the Cheyenne Avenue/Cliff Shadows Parkway interchange, from here, the road continues north along the western foothills of Las Vegas to pass behind Lone Mountain. Soon afterward, the highway curves east and intersects US95 at a yet to be upgraded partial interchange, from there the beltway continues nearly due east along the alignment of Centennial Parkway before entering northern North Las Vegas at Decatur Boulevard. From there it swings northeast, passing by the large Aliante development before turning east again, AASHTO approved the I-215 designation for approximately 18.9 miles of highway, from Tropicana Avenue to US95 on April 17,1993. As eventually built, this portion of the beltway is 19.59 miles in length. Much of the beltway was built completely with local funds, a tax measure voted on by the County residents increased funding for the beltway. As a result, it was expected to be upgraded to a freeway by 2013. However, at present it appears that this date will slip back at least a few years

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Beginning of CC 215, as viewed from the I-15 southbound overpass
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Las Vegas Beltway
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The southwest corner of CC 215 under construction, as seen from the air in early 2006. The two frontage roads initially carried mainline traffic until the freeway was completed later that year.

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Holy Cow Casino and Brewery
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Casino and Brewery was a locals casino and microbrewery on South Las Vegas Boulevard, north of the Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The property began in 1955 as Foxys Deli, which operated until its closure in 1975, a year later, the building was reopened as a casino named Foxys Firehouse, which later closed in 1988. Tom Big Dog Wiesner purchased the building and reopened it as the Holy Cow casino in 1992, Wiesner added a microbrewery the following year, making the Holy Cow the first brewery to open in Las Vegas. Wiesner persuaded the state to change its laws that had prohibited breweries from operating in Las Vegas, the brewery won several awards for its beers, although the property ultimately closed in March 2002, because of a decline in tourism caused by the September 11 attacks. The Holy Cow was demolished in April 2012, and construction of a two-story Walgreens store began on the property in 2014, the property began as Foxys Deli, opened by Abe Fox in April 1955. The deli closed in 1975, after Fox sold it, a year later, the building became Foxys Firehouse casino, which subsequently closed in 1988. In 1989, Tom Big Dog Wiesner and his partners sold the Marina Hotel to Kirk Kerkorian, Wiesner used the money from the hotel sale to purchase the closed Foxy Firehouse casino. Wiesner reopened the building as the Holy Cow. in March 1992. A microbrewery was added a year later, the Holy Cow was the first microbrewery to open in Las Vegas. Prior to that time, long-standing laws had prevented breweries from operating in the city, however, Wiesner persuaded the state to change its laws to allow the operation of local breweries. The Holy Cow operated as part of Wiesners Big Dogs Hospitality Group, the Holy Cow was known for its 14-foot-tall fiberglass Holstein cow statue, which wore sunglasses and rested atop the buildings front entrance. The buildings exterior featured murals of spotted black-and-white Wisconsin milk cows, in June 1996, plans were announced to renovate the building and rename it as Chicago-Chicago Casino, while retaining the brewery. The Holy Cows casino was to be expanded, and a restaurant named Big Dogs Chop House was to be added, in 1998, Zagat included the Holy Cow on its list of Americas Best Meal Deals. The Holy Cow suffered from a decline of tourism caused by the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the Holy Cow closed on March 22,2002, with the exception of the brewery, which continued to operate. Big Dogs Hospitality Group planned to ultimately move brewing operations to the companys Draft House Barn & Casino in North Las Vegas, the propertys 14-foot cow statue was sold for $2,200 to Jim Marsh, who owned several casinos and automobile dealerships in Nevada. Marsh set the cow statue up at his Longstreet hotel-casino in Amargosa Valley, in 2004, plans were announced to replace the Holy Cow with a $700 million, 940-foot condominium tower called The Summit, to be financed by Australian developer Victor Altomare. By January 2005, the Holy Cow had been converted into a $1 million sales office for Altomares other condominium project, later in 2005, Ivana Trump became associated with The Summit, which was renamed as Ivana Las Vegas. Trump added pink awnings to the Holy Cow building when it was reopened as a sales office for Ivana Las Vegas

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Riviera (hotel and casino)
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Riviera was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada, which operated from April 1955 to May 2015. It was last owned by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the hotel had over 2,100 rooms, less than half of which were located in a 23-story tower. The casino had 110,000 sq ft of gaming space, the casino was first proposed by Detroit mobster William Bischoff as the Casa Blanca, and received a gaming license in 1952. Bischoff later withdrew from the project, which was taken over by Miami businessman Samuel Cohen. By March 1955, Cohen, identified as a member of Miamis S & G gambling syndicate, was no part of the investment group. Marx Brothers Harpo and Gummo held minority interests at the opening, the Riviera opened on April 20,1955 as the first high-rise and the ninth resort on the Las Vegas Strip. Liberace cut the ribbon, and became the first resident performer. The Riviera became one of the oldest and most famous resorts in Las Vegas Valley. The Riviera also broke new ground in its design, previously, the headline was Las Vegas—Is Boom Overextended. and a story about how Las Vegas had built too many hotel rooms to be profitable. The Riviera casino went bankrupt just three months after opening, a group of former Flamingo Hotel managers led by Gus Greenbaum took over operation of the property, leasing it from the ownership group. Greenbaum had recently retired, and it was suspected that he was coerced to return to work by threats from Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo. Among Greenbaums staff was entertainment director William Nelson, who was discovered to be mob informer Willie Bioff. Greenbaums drug and gambling led to his embezzling from the casino. In December 1958, Greenbaum and his wife were murdered in their Phoenix, Arizona home, mob fixer Sidney Korshak played a major role in the propertys management. Law enforcement agencies suspected that he represented the Chicago Outfits interest in the Riviera, dean Martin was hired in 1969 to perform in the casinos showroom, and was given a 10% interest in the Riviera. Martin left in 1972, after management refused his request to cut his schedule from two nightly shows to one, the Riviera bought back his shares. In 1973, the Riviera was purchased for $60 million by AITS Inc. a Boston-based travel company controlled by Meshulam Riklis, the Riviera is the setting for the movie Fake-Out, which was financed by Riklis and starring his wife, Pia Zadora. The Riviera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1983, Riklis pledged money to keep the business in operation, and appointed Jeffrey Silver as CEO to turn the Riviera around

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The old marquee, with Debbie Reynolds headlining, and Billy Williams, along with Roberta Linn on the under-billing
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Riviera Facade
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Riviera Facade at Night

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Westward Ho Hotel and Casino
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Westward Ho Hotel and Casino was a casino and hotel located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, an unincorporated area of Clark County in the U. S. state of Nevada. The Westward Ho was the last large motel style property on the Strip and it was a two-story building with parking surrounding the buildings. The casino had a large number of slot machines, and a gaming pit with live dealers. The games included blackjack, roulette, craps, and Let It Ride, the Westward Ho was built and operated by siblings Dean Peterson, Faye Johnson and Murray Petersen, natives of Hyrum, Utah and was managed by Hans Dorweiller. It officially opened on April 1,1971, and closed on November 17,2005, marketed as the friendliest casino in Vegas, it operated for 35 years and was known as the worlds largest motor inn. On November 25,2005, eight days after the Westward Ho permanently closed their doors, voyager Entertainment had plans to build a large observation wheel on the property together with Centex Destination Properties but those plans have been canceled. In October 2006, Harrahs Entertainment purchased the site of the Westward Ho and this transaction valued the land at over $15 million per acre. Boyd Gaming planned on building its massive Echelon Place on the former Stardust site, the former Westward Ho site is currently a McDonalds restaurant. It was planned that the land where the previous McDonalds was located would be used for the Echelon resort, construction on Echelon was suspended in 2008 and Echelon sold it to Genting Group in 2013 for Resorts World Las Vegas. Driving along the Strip, the umbrellas, polished gold brass fixtures. The free-standing golden umbrellas stood over 80 feet tall and when installed in 1983, were revolutionary designs and these pylons were emulated both on the Strip and Fremont Street at Golden Gate Casino, Las Vegas Club, and Ballys Las Vegas. Inside the Westward Ho casino, the prevalent color scheme was brown and green, emphasizing the brass, there was a champagne fountain in the rear lobby, which poured down a pyramid of stacked champagne flutes. In the 1980s and early 1990s The Westward Ho had unique features for all such as the 24/7 free champagne cocktails. While other casinos on the Strip featured table minimums at $5, $10, or $25 minimums, The Ho often had table minimums as low as $1, which made it popular with avid gamblers as well as locals

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Silver Slipper
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The Silver Slipper was a casino in Paradise, Nevada that operated from September 1950 to November 29,1988. The owner originally wanted to call it the Silver Slipper, the problem was solved when that small operation was purchased and closed, and the Golden Slipper became the Silver Slipper. The casino was known for its rotating slipper that sat atop the casino, in April 1964, the casino became the first in Nevada to be shut down on cheating charges. Agents raided the Silver Slipper for using flat dice and for having other rigged games. On April 30,1968, the Silver Slipper was purchased by businessman Howard Hughes for $5.4 million in his famous spending spree of buying Vegas properties, legend has it that he purchased the casino because the lights from the rotating slipper bothered him. After several attempts at requesting that the slipper be turned off, Hughes purchased the casino and it is a common myth that he also had the Silver Slipper filled with concrete. The casino was purchased for $70 million on June 23,1988 by Margaret Elardi and it was demolished several months later and turned into a parking lot for the Frontier until its closing and demolition in 2007. In 2009, the Silver Slipper sign was restored and is now part of a display of vintage signs in the median along Las Vegas Boulevard North

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Sands Hotel and Casino
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The Sands Hotel and Casino was a historic hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, United States, that operated from 1952 to 1996. Designed by the architect Wayne McAllister, with a prominent 56-foot high sign, during its heyday, the Sands was the center of entertainment and cool on the Strip, and hosted many famous entertainers of the day, most notably the Rat Pack. The hotel was established in 1952 by Texan oil tycoon Jake Freedman, who bought up the LaRue Restaurant, which had opened two years earlier. The hotel was opened on December 15,1952 as a casino with 200 rooms, the hotel rooms were divided into four two-story motel wings, each with fifty rooms, and named after famous race tracks. The opening was widely publicized, and every guest was given a Chamois bag with silver dollars, crime bosses such as Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello acquired shares in the hotel and attracted Frank Sinatra, who made his performing debut at Sands in October 1953. Sinatra later bought a share in the hotel himself, Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. were instrumental throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s in bringing a change in racial policy in Sands, and after an incident in 1961, it began employing blacks. In 1960 the classic caper film Oceans 11 was shot at the hotel, red Skelton and others, who performed regularly in the hotels world-renowned Copa Room. In the mid 1960s, Sands and its adjacent properties were bought by the reclusive businessman Howard Hughes, after the 1970s it fell into decline until its final owner, Sheldon Adelson, made the decision to shut it down and to build a brand new resort. The last dice in the casino was rolled by Bob Stupak just after 6pm on June 30,1996, on November 26 of that year, it was finally imploded and demolished, much to the dismay of longtime employees and sentimentalists. Today, The Venetian stands where the Sands once stood, the LaRue Restaurant was established in December 1950 by Billy Wilkerson. The following year, oil tycoon Jake Freedman of Houston, Texas bought LaRue for $15,000, Freedmans idea was to build the best hotel and casino in Las Vegas to specifically cater to the glamorous Hollywood film stars and executives in a $600,000 project. Construction began on Sands Hotel in early 1952, built to a design by Wayne McAllister. Freedman had initially intended naming the hotel Holiday Inn after the film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, but after noticing that his socks became so full of sand decided to name it Sands. The tag line would be A Place in the Sun, named after a recently released film starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, and quite suitable to the hot desert location of Las Vegas. The hotel was opened on December 15,1952 as a casino with 200 rooms, the opening was widely publicized, and the hotel was visited by some 12,000 people within a few hours. At the inauguration were 146 journalists and special guests such as Arlene Dahl, Fernando Lamas, Esther Williams, every guest was given a Chamois bag with silver dollars, and Sands ended up losing $200,000 within the first eight hours. Jack Entratter, who was formerly in charge of the New York nightclub, Entratter made many show business friends during his time at the nightclub, he was able to use these connections to sign performers for the Sands Copa Room. Entratter was also able to offer entertainers an additional incentive to perform at the Sands, headlining stars received points, or a percentage of ownership in the hotel and casino

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Castaways (casino)
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The Castaways was a hotel and casino in Paradise, Nevada that operated from 1963 to 1987 on the Las Vegas Strip. The land that the Castaways was built on was first used in 1931 for the Red Rooster Nite Club and that structure was destroyed by a fire in 1933 and it was rebuilt. In 1942, the San Souci Auto Court was built next to the Red Rooster, later it was absorbed by the Sans Souci Hotel, Inc. which in October 1957 opened the Sans Souci Hotel. On September 1,1963, the property became the site of the Castaways Hotel & Casino, the latter experienced financial trouble and was sold and renamed Olivers New Castaways Casino. During the 1960s, the hotel had a 1500-gallon aquarium in its bar, three times a day a show was put on by naked women in the aquarium. In February 1970, the Castaways was sold to billionaire Howard Hughes for $3 million as part of his spree of buying Las Vegas properties, the resort operated until July 1987, when it closed and was demolished and the property was purchased by Steve Wynn. Wynn then proceeded with his plans to develop a new resort on the Castaways former grounds using the working name Golden Nugget on the Strip, the resort became Mirage and opened on November 22,1989. A historic wooden temple St. Louis Jain temple, originally a part of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and it has now been reconstructed at the Jain Center of Southern California, Los Angeles. Photos of casino & gaming chips used there

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Holiday Inn
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Holiday Inn is an American brand of hotels, and a subsidiary InterContinental Hotels Group. Founded as a U. S. motel chain, it has grown to be one of the worlds largest hotel chains, the hotel chain is based in Atlanta, Georgia. C. Their first hotel/motel opened in August 1952 as Holiday Inn Hotel Courts at 4925 Summer Avenue in Memphis, in the early 1990s, it was demolished, leaving behind a plaque commemorating the site. Wilson partnered with Wallace E. Johnson to build additional motels on the roads entering Memphis, at the time Holiday Inns corporate headquarters was in a converted plumbing shed owned by Johnson. In 1953, the company built its three hotels which, along with their first hotel, covered the roads that led to Memphis. The second motel was built on U. S.51 South and it was followed by two more in 1953, one on Highway 51 North, and another on U. S.61. Upon Johnsons death in 1988, Wilson was quoted as saying and he was the greatest partner a man could ever have. What they started together, with Wilson later helming the project, became the Holiday Corporation, by the beginning of 1956, there were 23 Holiday Inns operating with seven more due to open by the years end. In 1957, Wilson began marketing the chain as Holiday Inn of America, mandating its properties be standardized, clean, predictable, family-friendly, and readily accessible to road travelers. The chain grew dramatically as a result, with 50 locations across the country by 1958,100 by 1959,500 by 1964, and the 1, 000th Holiday Inn opening in 1968. In 1965, the chain launched Holidex, a reservation system where a visitor to any Holiday Inn could obtain reservations, by teleprinter. The only comparable systems at the time were operated by airlines, by June 1972, with over 1,400 Holiday Inns worldwide, Wilson was featured on the cover of Time magazine and the franchises motto became The Worlds Innkeeper. In the 1960s, Holiday Inn began franchising and opening campgrounds under the Holiday Inn Trav-L-Park brand and these recreational campgrounds were listed in the Holiday Inn directories. S. and Interstate highways. The arrangement was copied by competing lodging chains and major oil companies during the mid-to-late 1960s, the Gulf/Holiday Inn arrangement ended around 1982. In 1971, the company constructed the Holiday Inn University and Conference Center, in 1973, the company built the Olive Branch Airport north of the University as a home base for its corporate aircraft. Wilson also developed the Orange Lake Resort and Country Club near Orlando, the acquisition of Trailways in 1968 lasted until 1979, when Holiday Inn sold Trailways to private investor Henry Lea Hillman Sr of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the years during which Trailways was a subsidiary of Holiday Inn, Wilson retired from Holiday Inn in 1979. As of 2014, Wilsons family still operates hotels as part of the Kemmons Wilson Companies of Memphis, the Great Sign was the roadside sign used by Holiday Inn during its original era of expansion from the 1950s to 1970s

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Hacienda (resort)
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The Hacienda Resort Hotel and Casino was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, that operated from 1956 to 1996. It was one of a chain of four Hacienda properties, with the three being located in Fresno, Bakersfield, and Indio, California. Each Hacienda featured a horse and rider sign, the Las Vegas sign is now prominently displayed at the Neon Museum. Located by itself on the far end of the Las Vegas Strip. Since it was so far from the resorts at the time. The Hacienda was also located close to McCarran International Airport, and at one point they had their own airline, Hacienda Airlines, the Hacienda was known for their inexpensive, all-inclusive junkets marketed to American Midwestern retirees. Work on the Lady Luck Hotel had begun by 1953, before construction reached the halfway mark, the projects financing fell apart, and management was denied a gaming license by state regulators. One of the investors, Warren Doc Bayley, a travel columnist and owner of the Hacienda Motel in Fresno, stepped in to take over and he changed the name from Lady Luck to Hacienda. The Hacienda opened on October 17,1956, at a cost of $6 million, with 266 rooms, Bayley formed Hacienda Airlines in 1957. Offering packages that included transportation from Los Angeles to the Hacienda as well as a room, the airline included DC-3s, DC-4s and Lockheed Constellations numbering as many as 30 aircraft. After Bayleys death in 1965, his widow, Judith Bayley, after her death, the property was sold in 1972 for $5 million to a group led by Allen R. Glick, who was later revealed as a frontman for organized crime interests. In 1977, Paul Lowden, the Haciendas entertainment director and owner of a 15% stake, bought out Glick, the Gaming Control Board voted to deny Lowden a license due to his association with Glick, but was overruled by the Gaming Commission. Magician Herbert L. Becker produced, directed and wrote his own show at the Hacienda beginning in 1977, the show ran for two years, on a staggered schedule before Becker went into retirement. Magician Lance Burton also produced, directed and wrote his own show at the Hacienda beginning in 1991, the show ran for five years before Burton moved to the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino. In 1995, the Hacienda was purchased by Circus Circus Enterprises from Lowdens Archon Corporation, by this time, it was dwarfed by the many new megaresorts that were being built, in particular the Luxor which had just been recently completed. On December 10,1996, the Hacienda was closed to the public after 40 years and this implosion was broadcast on the Fox Network as a part of their New Years Eve 1996 telecast. Despite the implosion, parts of the old resort still stood, due to the building not falling into its footprint, the next day a wrecking crew was brought in to bring down the remaining parts. In March 1999, it was replaced by the Mandalay Bay, the Hacienda name was licensed to the Hacienda Hotel and Casino in Boulder City

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Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino
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The Cromwell Las Vegas is a luxury boutique hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation, the property was the site of Empeys Desert Villa from 1952. In 1979 it became the Barbary Coast casino and hotel, the casino was built by Michael Gaughan and opened on March 2,1979 at a cost of $11.5 million. Over time, this property, along with others owned by Gaughan would become Coast Casinos Inc, Gaughan shared partnership in the Barbary Coast with Kenny Epstein, Tito Tiberti, Frank Toti and Jerry Herbst. In July 2005, Boyd Gaming purchased the Barbary Coast Hotel, in September 2005, Boyd purchased the 4.3 acres of land the hotel occupied for $16 million. The hotel had previously been leasing the land, in 2007, Boyd gave the Barbary Coast to Harrahs Entertainment in exchange for the 24-acre site of the demolished Westward Ho, to be used for the Echelon Place project. The Barbary Coast closed at 2,00 a. m. on February 27 and reopened on March 1 as the newly rebranded Bills Gamblin Hall and Saloon, in honor of company founder Bill Harrah. After nearly six years of operations, Bills closed on February 4,2013. Plans called for renovation of the entire property, the guest rooms and casino floor, a new restaurant. In October 2013, however, Caesars terminated its agreement with Gansevoort, plans announced in late 2013 indicated that Giada De Laurentiis would open her first restaurant in the new hotel and that Caesars would run the hotel. Caesars confirmed on January 31,2014, that the hotel would be named The Cromwell and it marked its soft opening to guests on April 21,2014. The hotel rooms were available starting May 21,2014, in July 2014, Giada De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant, called GIADA, inside the resort. The restaurant offers seating in the room, lounge, or outdoor patio with views of the Bellagio fountains. Family-style, vegan, and gluten-free options are available, as well as an antipasto station. Restaurant guests can watch chefs prepare food from the open kitchen, in 1997, Victor Drai opened Drai’s restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. Two years later, Drai added a nightclub to the restaurant, in Vegas Sevens 2012 Nightclub Awards, Drais After Hours won Best Place to Disappear. Drai opened his latest Las Vegas club project, Drai’s Beach Club & Nightclub, on Memorial Day Weekend 2014 and this 65, 000-square-foot venue has a party pool and an indoor/outdoor club spread out over two levels on top of the new Cromwell Hotel. List of Caesars Entertainment properties List of casinos in Nevada Official website

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Hoover Dam Lodge
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Hoover Dam Lodge is a hotel and casino near Boulder City, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Nevada Restaurant Services and it was previously the Gold Strike until it was largely destroyed by an accidental fire on June 16,1998. It reopened the next year as Hacienda Hotel & Casino, the hotel is located on a parcel of private land surrounded by Lake Mead National Recreation Area, three miles from Hoover Dam. It overlooks Lake Mead and has a 17-story tower with 372 rooms, the 20,782 square feet casino has 154 slot machines, and a race and sports book operated by William Hill. The property was originally a mining claim owned by Las Vegas real estate developer Patrick Sullivan. It became known as Sullivans Gulch, in the 1920s, the Bureau of Reclamation withdrew over a million acres of land for the creation of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, but overlooked Sullivans land. The National Park Service made attempts to buy the land as early as 1936, in 1954, Sullivans heirs sold the property for $20,000 to Boulder City businessman Don Belding, his business partner, O. L. Raney, and Jack Richardson. They saw an opportunity to service drivers going to and from the dam and they opened the Gold Strike Inn in May 1958 with a snack bar, gift shop, cocktail lounge, service station, and six slot machines. In the 1960s, the partners leased the site to a developer that hoped to expand it as an Old West theme park, the name was changed to Fort Lucinda and attractions such as llama rides, a wax museum, and a 3 ft narrow gauge railroad were added. A ghost town consisting of buildings from various northern Nevada towns was moved to the property from the New Frontier casino, the project was killed by financing and water supply problems, control reverted to Belding, Raney, and Richardson, and the Gold Strike name returned. The NPS tried again to acquire the land in 1964, prior to the creation of Lake Mead National Recreation Area, in 1977, Belding and Richardson sold their shares to their sons, Dave and Bill, and Raney sold his interest to Circus Circus executive Mike Ensign. An 80-room hotel was opened in 1982, with another 80 rooms added in 1986, on June 16,1998, an accidental fire started by a construction worker destroyed the Gold Strike casino, while leaving the hotel tower mostly undamaged. The property was reopened in November 1999, at a cost of $30 million, a name change had already been planned, because the Gold Strike name had been sold to Circus Circus, so the property was renamed as the Hacienda. The Hacienda name was licensed from Circus Circus, which had owned the demolished Hacienda casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The Secretary of Interior allocated up to $20 million for a purchase, the NPS hoped to tear down the tower, which they considered an eyesore, and build a visitors center, offices, or a training center. The owners ultimately decided not to sell the Hacienda because they were uncertain about their ability to new jobs for the employees if the property were to close. In December 2013, Nevada Restaurant Services, parent company of the chain of Dottys slot parlors. The company announced plans to renovate the property and build a new gas station, the property was renamed to Hoover Dam Lodge in January 2015

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Former logo.

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Boulder City
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Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada. It is approximately 26 miles southeast of Las Vegas, as of the 2010 census, the population of Boulder City was 15,023. Boulder City is one of two cities in Nevada that prohibits gambling. The land upon which Boulder City was founded was a harsh and its sole reason for existence was the need to house workers contracted to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. Men hoping for work on the dam project had begun settling along the river in tents soon after the site for the dam had been chosen by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1930. Their ramshackle edifices were collectively known as Ragtown, Boulder City was originally built in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc. as housing for workers who were building the Hoover Dam. The sheer scale of the dam and duration of the project required the Bureau of Reclamation to consider the construction of a semi-permanent town rather than a temporary arrangement, Boulder City was exceptionally rare as an example of a town fully planned under government supervision. This is unlike 19th century privately funded company town examples found in the United Kingdom, such as Port Sunlight, or in the United States, such as Pullman, Chicago. Boulder City was carefully planned through federal supervision as a model community, DeBoer had been a planner for Denver, Colorado, and was to design many towns and suburbs around the Rocky Mountain region. There was to be an emphasis on an environment for dam workers. The plan submitted by DeBoer in 1930 was formal and symmetrical with a park, the plan was deemed too expensive to carry out in its original form and was modified to allow for more regular block sizes. Nevertheless, its allowance for public space and copious amounts of landscaping earned it the moniker Nevadas Garden City, the provision of green landscape was another expression of the Bureau of Reclamations mission to reclaim and green the American West. The town was designed to house approximately 5,000 workers, the status of the workers on the Hoover Dam was reflected in their house sizes and locations. The most important employees had their residences on top of the nearer the apex. Managers were housed further down the hill, and dwellings for manual laborers were located furthest away from the public buildings, the most radically modified portions of DeBoers plan were in these lower-class residential blocks, where open space and parks were largely eliminated. Commercial development was restricted and severely regulated under Sims Ely, the city manager, there were limits to the number of different types of stores allowed in the city, and all who wished to begin a business were screened for character and financial viability. On the other hand, there was no provision for schools in the burgeoning city, the town made do with makeshift schoolrooms until the city won the right for state-funded schools to be established on the federal reservation upon which Boulder City was situated. No hospitals were provided in the city either, injured workers had to travel 33 miles to Las Vegas Hospital, and when a hospital was established in the city, females were not admitted for a number of years

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Boulder Dam Hotel built in 1933
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Boulder Theatre in July 1932, the first air-conditioned building in the city
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Boulder Theatre in September 2008, now owned by Desi Arnaz, Jr.; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Estate homes overlooking Lake Mead

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Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino
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The Linq is a 2, 640-room hotel, casino and shopping promenade on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation, the casino is 118,000 square feet with 830 slot machines,55 table games, and a race and sports book. The property began as the $2 million, 180-room Flamingo Capri motel, owned by George E. Goldberg, the motel was built directly north of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, where Capri was an employee. The motel began construction in May 1959, with a completion date of August 15,1959. Douglas Honnold and John Rex, both of Beverly Hills, California, were the architects, maurice N. Aroff of Beverly Hills was the general contractor. The Flamingo Capri opened in 1959, the original Flamingo agreed to provide hotel services to guests at the Capri. Ralph Engelstad purchased the motel in 1971, and added a casino in 1972, in 1973, four motel buildings from the Flamingo Capri were relocated and converted to become part of Engelstads other property, the Kona Kai motel. Engelstads construction company added a wing at the east end of the motel, as well as a northern addition. By 1976, the motel was being operated as part of the Best Western hotel chain, the new Imperial Palace Tower, which raised the number of rooms from 300 to 650, was completed in July 1977. The property later re-opened as the Asian-themed Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino on November 1,1979, the Imperial Theatre showroom with 850 seats was opened in June 1980. A second hotel tower with 850 rooms was added in early 1981, the Auto Collections opened on December 1,1981, on the fifth floor of a new parking garage which was added that year. A third hotel tower was added in August 1982, in 1984, a couple from Missouri were assaulted in their guest room by a man dressed as a hotel employee. They were beaten, bound and gagged, and the wife was raped, the couple sued the Imperial Palace, claiming that the hotel did not provide adequate security. The lawsuit lasted until at least 1989, with allegations that hotel employees destroyed evidence relating to their security practices, the case was ultimately settled on undisclosed terms. The lawsuit would lead indirectly to more trouble for the casino, the parties were held in Engelstads so-called war room, which featured a large collection of World War II Nazi memorabilia, including a portrait of Engelstad in the likeness of Hitler. Engelstad claimed the collection was purely of historical interest, and not meant to glorify the Nazis, the Gaming Control Board recommended that Engelstad lose his gaming license and be fined $200,000 for reflecting poorly on the reputation of the Nevada gaming industry. An agreement was reached whereby Engelstad kept his license. In 1986, the casino was expanded by 15,000 square feet, with the meeting, a fourth hotel tower was also added in 1986, for a total of 2,100 rooms

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The LINQ Promenade with the High Roller in the background.
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1930 Cord, part of the Auto Collections
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Flamingo Capri
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The Linq is a 2, 640-room hotel, casino and shopping promenade on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation, the casino is 118,000 square feet with 830 slot machines,55 table games, and a race and sports book. The property began as the $2 million, 180-room Flamingo Capri motel, owned by George E. Goldberg, the motel was built directly north of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, where Capri was an employee. The motel began construction in May 1959, with a completion date of August 15,1959. Douglas Honnold and John Rex, both of Beverly Hills, California, were the architects, maurice N. Aroff of Beverly Hills was the general contractor. The Flamingo Capri opened in 1959, the original Flamingo agreed to provide hotel services to guests at the Capri. Ralph Engelstad purchased the motel in 1971, and added a casino in 1972, in 1973, four motel buildings from the Flamingo Capri were relocated and converted to become part of Engelstads other property, the Kona Kai motel. Engelstads construction company added a wing at the east end of the motel, as well as a northern addition. By 1976, the motel was being operated as part of the Best Western hotel chain, the new Imperial Palace Tower, which raised the number of rooms from 300 to 650, was completed in July 1977. The property later re-opened as the Asian-themed Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino on November 1,1979, the Imperial Theatre showroom with 850 seats was opened in June 1980. A second hotel tower with 850 rooms was added in early 1981, the Auto Collections opened on December 1,1981, on the fifth floor of a new parking garage which was added that year. A third hotel tower was added in August 1982, in 1984, a couple from Missouri were assaulted in their guest room by a man dressed as a hotel employee. They were beaten, bound and gagged, and the wife was raped, the couple sued the Imperial Palace, claiming that the hotel did not provide adequate security. The lawsuit lasted until at least 1989, with allegations that hotel employees destroyed evidence relating to their security practices, the case was ultimately settled on undisclosed terms. The lawsuit would lead indirectly to more trouble for the casino, the parties were held in Engelstads so-called war room, which featured a large collection of World War II Nazi memorabilia, including a portrait of Engelstad in the likeness of Hitler. Engelstad claimed the collection was purely of historical interest, and not meant to glorify the Nazis, the Gaming Control Board recommended that Engelstad lose his gaming license and be fined $200,000 for reflecting poorly on the reputation of the Nevada gaming industry. An agreement was reached whereby Engelstad kept his license. In 1986, the casino was expanded by 15,000 square feet, with the meeting, a fourth hotel tower was also added in 1986, for a total of 2,100 rooms

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The LINQ Promenade with the High Roller in the background.
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1930 Cord, part of the Auto Collections
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Las Vegas Strip

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Welcome to Las Vegas
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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a Las Vegas landmark funded in May 1959 and erected soon after by Western Neon. The sign was designed by Betty Willis at the request of Ted Rogich, a local salesman, some consider the sign to be the official southern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The sign, like most of the Strip, sits in the town of Paradise and is located roughly 4 miles south of the city limits of Las Vegas. The sign is a 25-foot-tall classic roadside pole design, mounted offset on two poles which are joined by a cross piece at the top. The poles extend above the top of the sign, the sign is a horizontally stretched diamond shape, with the top and bottom angles pointed while the side angles are rounded. It is double-backed, internally lit, with a border of flashing and chasing yellow incandescent bulbs outside around the perimeter, in a nod to Nevadas nickname as the Silver State, across the top of the sign are white neon circles, designed to represent silver dollars. The circles each contain a red painted letter, outlined in neon, crowning the sign, located between the two poles and just under the crosspiece is an eight-pointed, red-painted metal star outlined with yellow neon. The cabinet is faced with translucent white plastic and covered with blue, the south side of the sign reads Welcome inside the silver dollars, with to Fabulous in blue, in a 1950s-style cursive, underneath. The words Las Vegas are on the line in red, all capitalized. Under Las Vegas is the word Nevada in blue, all capitalized, the design is characteristic of the Googie architecture movement. Betty Willis intended to design a sign that was unique in its shape, style, young Electric Sign Company currently owns the sign, which leases it to Clark County, while the design itself is in the public domain. The design of the sign was never copyrighted since Willis considered this her gift to the city and this has resulted in the image being ubiquitous on Las Vegas souvenirs. In 2007, Clark County installed decorative artificial turf inlaid with four playing cards underneath the sign. On December 6,2013, the State Historic Preservation Office for the State of Nevada announced that the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign had been added to the State Register of Historic Places. On April 19,2015, the designer of the sign, Betty Willis, died in her home in Overton, on May 5,2015, Clark County commissioners declared May 5 Betty Willis Day honoring the designer of the sign. Commissioners issued a proclamation to her daughter Marjorie Holland, prior to 2008, access to the iconic sign for photo opportunities was risky. There was no place for visitors to park, and visitors had to cross travel lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard. Although there had no known traffic fatalities involving pedestrians attempting to access the sign

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The "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" Sign
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The sign at night with the lights illuminated.
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The back of the sign at night.

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Google Maps
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Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, Google maps began as a C++ desktop program designed by Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application, after additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a realtime traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The services front end utilizes JavaScript, XML, and Ajax, Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for urban businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google Map Maker allows users to expand and update the services mapping worldwide. Much of the satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular basis. Google Maps uses a variant of the Mercator projection. The current redesigned version of the application was made available in 2013. Google Maps for mobile was released in September 2008 and features GPS turn-by-turn navigation, in August 2013, it was determined to be the worlds most popular app for smartphones, with over 54% of global smartphone owners using it at least once. In 2012, Google reported having over 7,100 employees, Google Maps provides a route planner under Get Directions. Up to four modes of transportation are available depending on the area, driving, public transit, walking, in combination with Google Street View, issues such as parking, turning lanes, and one-way streets can be viewed before traveling. China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Jordan, Lebanon, only public transit directions are provided for South Korea. All countries of mainland North and Central America are covered contiguously, all countries of mainland South America are covered. All countries including Trinidad and Tobago* are treated contiguously, all inhabited countries and territories in the Caribbean are covered, though in general there are no connections between islands. Like many other Google web applications, Google Maps uses JavaScript extensively, as the user drags the map, the grid squares are downloaded from the server and inserted into the page. When a user searches for a business, the results are downloaded in the background for insertion into the panel and map. Locations are drawn dynamically by positioning a red pin on top of the map images, a hidden IFrame with form submission is used because it preserves browser history. The site also uses JSON for data rather than XML

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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker

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A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an EAN-13 bar code

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Las Vegas Sun
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The Las Vegas Sun is one of the Las Vegas Valleys two daily newspapers. It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group, the paper published afternoons on weekdays from 1990 to 2005. The paper is now included as a section inside the pages of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, publisher and President Brian Greenspun, former publisher Hank Greenspuns son, was a college roommate of U. S. President Bill Clinton. Greenspun welcomed Clinton, while he was a sitting President, as a house guest during a Clinton fundraising trip to southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Sun was first published on May 21,1950, by Hank Greenspun, who served as its editor until his death. Hank acquired the Las Vegas Free Press and two weeks later renamed it to the Las Vegas Sun and he started the Las Vegas Sun after he received a US$1, 000-loan from businessman Nate Mack. From its founding the paper was published in the mornings, starting in 1989, after it signed a Joint Operating Agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the paper switched to publishing in the afternoon. The Pulitzer Prize committee noted that the Suns coverage led to changes in government policy, alexandra Berzon was the primary author for the 4 part series. Berzon promptly left the paper upon her win, as did health reporter and Pulitzer finalist Marshall Allen in 2011. The afternoon edition of the paper was published until September 30,2005, when, on October 2,2005, the staff for each paper remained independent. The section typically contains no advertisements, the two newspapers editorial departments continue to have in-print disputes, often on the op-ed pages by Brian Greenspun and former Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick. Before Christmas in 2009, the Sun fired more than half its staff and changed its focus from news to feature stories. Then, in September 2011, the laid off a dozen additional employees

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ESPN
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ESPN is a U. S. -based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc. a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut, the network also operates offices in Miami, New York City, Seattle, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. John Skipper currently serves as president of ESPN, a position he has held since January 1,2012, as of February 2015, ESPN is available to approximately 94,396,000 paid television households in the United States. In 2011, ESPNs history and rise was chronicled by These Guys Have All the Fun, Bill Rasmussen conceived the concept of ESPN in late May 1978, after he was fired from his job with the World Hockey Associations New England Whalers. One of the first steps in Bill and his son Scotts process was finding land to build the channels broadcasting facilities, the Rasmussens first rented office space in Plainville, Connecticut. However, the plan to base ESPN there was put on hold because a local ordinance prohibiting buildings from bearing rooftop satellite dishes and this helped the credibility of the fledgling company, however there were still many doubters to the viability of their sports channel concept. ESPN launched on September 7,1979, beginning with the first telecast of what would become the flagship program. Taped in front of a live audience inside the Bristol studios. ESPNs next big break came when the acquired the rights to broadcast coverage of the early rounds of the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. It first aired the NCAA tournament in March 1980, creating the modern day television event known as March Madness. The channels tournament coverage also launched the career of Dick Vitale. In April of that year, ESPN created another made-for-TV spectacle, the next major stepping stone for ESPN came over the course of a couple of months in 1984. During this time period, the American Broadcasting Company purchased 100% of ESPN from the Rasmussens, for years, the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball refused to consider cable as a means of broadcasting some of their games. However, with the backing of ABC, ESPNs ability to compete for major sports contracts greatly increased, later in 1984, the U. S. ESPNs Sunday Night Football games would become the highest-rated NFL telecasts for the next 17 years. In 1992, ESPN launched ESPN Radio, a sports talk radio network providing analysis. It became the fastest growing cable channel in the U. S. during the 1990s, ownership of ABC, and in effect control of ESPN, was acquired first by Capital Cities Communications in 1985, and then by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. In 2012, ESPN generated more revenue for Disney than any of its other properties combined, alongside its live sports broadcasts, ESPN also airs a variety of sports highlight, talk, and documentary-styled shows. 30 for 30 started airing in 2009 and continues airing to this day, each episode is through the eyes of a well known filmmaker and has featured some of the biggest directors in Hollywood